What controversial act applied national performance standards to state schools without providing funds to pay for required testing or correct problems identified by the testing?
a. The High Stakes Testing Act
b. The No Child Left Behind Act
c. The Federal Unfunded Mandates Act
d. All of the Above
ANS: B
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A. It helped to unify the country through a large-scale program of railway and road building. B. It helped in incorporating people from diverse linguistic and caste backgrounds. C. It helped the British colonial government in earning revenues from a government salt tax monopoly. D. It helped the British government in abolishing authority of the East India Company. E. It resulted in the establishment of the Supreme Court.
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A) aristocrats, commoners and working-class people B) indigenous people, whites and immigrants C) West Africans, sub-Saharan people, and Arabs D) whites, mixed-race peoples, and East Indians
People who assume roles of prominence in society are known as
A) common ground. B) public figures. C) the judiciary. D) majoritarians. E) pluralists.
Compare redistricting and gerrymandering. What are the main similarities and the differences?
What will be an ideal response?