According to Donald McCarty and Charles Ramsey, authors of The School Managers: Power and Conflict in American Public Education, a school board in a community dominated by a few powerful figures will seek out a superintendent who ________.
A. has a functionary style
B. acts as a decision maker
C. acts as an adviser
D. has a political style
Answer: A
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Gay (2005) discusses the reasons for the gap between scholarship on multicultural curriculum and practice. This research proposes which of the following that would close this gap?
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a. School officials must have acted with deliberate indifference. b. School officials must have had actual knowledge. c. The harassment must have been severe, persistent and objectively offensive and the harassment must have deprived the victim from educational benefit d. Choices b and c are correct. e. Choices a, b, and c are correct.
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a. a cheese-pea-noodle casserole b. spaghetti covered with meat sauce c. a hot dog with corn on the side. d. chicken salad including grapes, celery, and mayonnaise