When the author of your textbook says essentialists should "take the blame along with the credit," he means that
a. essentialists should stop blaming others for problems in the schools because essentialism has been dominant in U.S. education since the mid-1970s
b. essentialists should continue to push ahead with their reforms in hopes they will finally succeed in the 2000s
c. essentialists are entitled to use rising scores on state assessments to give themselves credit after years of taking public blame
d. newly developed assessments are still not monitoring classroom instruction closely enough
A
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Refer to Exhibit 20-3. Forty first-graders were specially selected for the study
a. Population c. Sample b. Parameter d. Statistic
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In recent years, the interest in curriculum has been declining.