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At a recent school board meeting, a group of parents spoke out on the issue of the poor quality of the district’s schools. They demanded the formation of charter schools that emphasized a rigorous, traditional curriculum and teacher-centered classrooms. These parents most closely resemble

According to Jeannie Oakes, tracking persists in schools largely because

Students can grade their peers’ academic work (and even announce the results in class) without violating the privacy act. This was a ruling by the Supreme Court in

Which of the following protects citizens’ rights to due process and equal protection under the law, no matter where they live in the United States?

A textbook covers twentieth-century U.S. history without mentioning the continuing struggle for civil rights; and pictures throughout the text portray only harmonious relations between the races. This is an example of a form of bias known as

After the _____, the United States acquired the Philippines. Filipinos, viewed as low-cost labor, were recruited to work in the fields of Hawaii and the U.S. mainland.

Full-service schools

Which of the following asserts that the purpose of education is to help children find the meaning and direction in their lives and rejects the notion that adults should or could direct meaningful learning for children?

Activists who took funds from wealthy districts and redistributed the monies to the poorer districts were called

In theory, which of the followingprovides access to a wealth of online learning from pre-school to university, without brick-and-mortar costs like maintenance of buildings, playgrounds, parking lots, and the like?