Evaluate how students in the United States compare to other countries-both developed countries and less developed countries-in terms of educational achievement. Why is investing in education so important:
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. On standardized tests administered throughout the world, the United States lags other advanced industrialized nations
2. U.S. scores vary a lot.
3. American test scores are improving.
4. In developed countries, many girls and boys, especially girls, do not attend school.
5. School is important: Improved health; delayed marriage and childbearing; higher wages and economic growth; increased democracy and political stability
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Which of the following best illustrates policy adoption?
a) A committee of the Texas legislature holds hearings on a proposal to require all health-care workers to be tested for tuberculosis infection. b) Sheriff's deputies conduct an intensive traffic patrol looking for drunk drivers. c) The local board of school trustees votes to purchase metal detectors to search students for weapons on school grounds. d) The commissioner of agriculture gives a speech encouraging Texans to purchase produce grown in the Lone Star State. e) The governor stresses the importance of a college education in his State of the State address.
Which of the following did sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf assert in his influential article “Out of Utopia” (1958)?
A. All societies will advance to the same final destination: a classless, stateless society. B. The distribution of authority in society is a means of determining the probability of conflict. C. Through the work of organic intellectuals, counterhegemonic ideas will emerge to challenge the dominant beliefs in society. D. A society’s path can be changed by a charismatic figure whose authority transcends institutionalized authority structures.
White Protestants considered religious Mexicans promiscuous because:
a. Mexican Catholics were fine with premarital sex.
b. Mexican Catholics did not consider it wrong to show affection.
c. Mexican Catholics considered it wrong to sing and dance in public.
d. Mexicans Catholics supported homosexuality.
Laws are __________
a. universal across societies b. socially constructed c. based on inherently legal and illegal actions d. arbitrary