Education quiz help! Any answers at all will be grateful!?

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2)Which statement is TRUE?
A)In the 1800s, Native Americans willingly sent their children to reservation schools.
B)Most Native Americans live on reservations
C)Most Native American children are educated in public schools.
D)Church missionaries created a Cherokee syllabary to teach Native American children in their native language.

6)Over the past two decades
A)schools have become largely desegregated thanks to busing and choice plans.
B)African-American students were the most segregated of all races in their schools
C)the Supreme Court declared racial quotas illegal in school admissions.
D)the courts have signaled impatience with the slow pace of desegregation.

8)Females in the U.S.
A)have always had equal educational opportunity, as long as they were white females.
B)received their right to attend public school with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
C)have been banned from many schools and still encounter differential treatment in class.
D)receive lower report card grades than males do and are more likely to be reprimanded, two tangible signs that gender bias still exists.

9)All of the following worked to make equal educational opportunity a reality EXCEPT
A)Horace Mann
B)Mary McLeod Bethune
C)Jean Piaget
D)Emma Hart Willard

11)Unlike existentialists, __________ believe that free will is an illusion and that human nature is shaped by the environment.
A)essentialists
B)progressivists
C)perennialists
D)behaviorists

14)Progressivism's foremost educational advocate was
A)Jean-Paul Sartre.
B)Jane Roland Martin.
C)John Dewey.
D)B. F. Skinner.

16)One who believes in the existentialist philosophy of education believes schooling should
A)ground our students in a core curriculum; not be watered down with electives.
B)help students accept themselves as unique, responsible individuals.
C)follow students' interests and offer hands-on activities and group projects.
D)help students appreciate learning for its own sake.

17)Which of the following best describes the system of funding U.S. schools?
A)very decentralized, with local and state governments bearing most of the costs
B)centralized, with the federal government picking up most of the cost
C)heavily dependent on state and federal income taxes
D)similar to that of most industrialized nations

19)The contribution of the federal government has shifted in recent years
A)from categorical grants to block grants.
B)from categorical grants to tax rebates.
C)from block grants to categorical grants.
D)from block grants to tax rebates.

20)A frequently used method for financing large, one-time educational expenditures is called a
A)tax levied on sales.
B)tax levied on property.
C)school bond.
D)none of the answers

21)State governments typically do NOT
A)set accreditation standards.
B)establish how revenue will be raised.
C)evaluate school programs.
D)hire school personnel.

22)The chief state school officer manages
A)salaries for school district personnel.
B)the hiring of local school district personnel.
C)implementation of teacher licensure requirements.
D)individual, long-range plans for each local school district.

23)Local school board members tend to be
A)white, male, middle or upper class.
B)middle-class homemakers, about half of whom have been or are teachers.
C)much more representative than most state legislatures, being fairly evenly divided between men and women, and representing all socioeconomic classes.
D)too diverse politically, economically, and socially to make any general characterizations.

27)A child who is expelled for bringing nail clippers to school is probably feeling the consequence of
A)corporal punishment.
B)a zero-tolerance policy.
C)sexual harassment.
D)traditional inculcation.

28)A student is quite upset with the use of special interest funds in the Congressional elections in her local district. As a protest, she attaches several corporate logos to her clothes, advertising everything from oil companies to automobiles. To the teachers and students who ask her, she explains that this is her way of protesting the influence of big business in national politics. Her right to undertake this activity was established in
A)Goss v. Lopez.
B)Tinker v. Des Moines.
C)Brown v. Board of Education.
D)Serrano v. Priest.

29)Student freedom of press would NOT protect the printing of an article that
A)is critical of the president of the United States.
B)explores the issues surrounding prayer in school.
C)'roasts' some unpopular students and uses obscenities.
D)expresses student fears about AIDS.