Chapter 9- Purposes of American's Schools & Current Reform

Meaningful school governance, improvement, and reform depend on ___. If we expect teachers to help reform their schools, they need to feel safe and ____. (same word in both blanks)

• tenure

• security

• trust/trusted

• important

____ has proven essential to academic freedom by protecting teachers from arbitrary dismissal if they teach an inconvenient fact, discuss an unpopular idea, or have a personality conflict with an administrator. ___ allows you job protection that guarantees or enhances your continued employments as long as you don't break a law or hurt children. (Same word in both blanks)

• Value added

• Tenure

• Teacher expectations

• Merit pay

Which factor of effective schools is this scenario describing.... Bulletin boards and walls are attractive, but few student papers are posted, students showed only vague ideas of how they were doing or how to improve academic performance. Teachers seemed unclear about student progress. Which factor could be improved?

• Strong leadershp

• Clear school mission

• Safe and orderly climate

• Monitoring student progress

• High expectations

Which factor of effective schools is this scenario describing.... Vague about goals and focus on status quo. They make comments as, "We have a good school and a good faculty, and want to keep it that way." Which factor could be improved?

• Strong leadershp

• Clear school mission

• Safe and orderly climate

• Monitoring student progress

• High expectations

Which factor of effective schools is this scenario describing.... Student problems are identified early and before they deteriorate into violence. School counselors and school-wide programs increase communication and reduce school tension. Which factor is working well?

• Strong leadershp

• Clear school mission

• Safe and orderly climate

• Monitoring student progress

• High expectations

When students, parents, and teachers were asked to rate goals of schooling in a study by John Goodlad, _____.

• all of them rated social and civic goals as most important

• students and parents rated personal goals highest teachers rated academic goals highest.

• vocational, personal, academic, social, and civic goals were all rated "very important."

• students gave the highest rating to goals in the intellectual area

Which factor of effective schools is this scenario describing.... Having a staff that wants and actively seeks to participate as well as encouraging staff to try new things, help to make decisions, learn from mistakes and not let one failure determine future opportunities, improving instruction, creating a positive school climate, and having a visible presence in classrooms, hallways, and elsewhere. Which factor is working well?

• Strong leadershp

• Clear school mission

• Safe and orderly climate

• Monitoring student progress

• High expectations

When the government gives parents a certain amount of money which parents can use to "shop" for the best public or private school, this is a description of ____?

• Home schooling

• Charters

• Magnets

• Vouchers

Schools that offer high-quality programs for talented students and have been used as a method of voluntary racial desegregation are known as:

• magnet schools

• open enrollment schools

• charter schools

• for-profit schools

Identify an accurate statement about open enrollment.

• Students receive educational vouchers to study in select schools

• Students become eligible to enroll in any public school with available space

• Students are offered a form of distance learning

• Students are currently offered open enrollment in few than ten states