EDUC 220 - Week 5 Quiz

1. The idea of secular (non-religious) schools emerged during the era of which historical event?

• 1. The Civil War

• 1. The Spanish-American War

• 1. World War I

• 1. The Revolutionary War

1. "Common Schools" in the 1800s were:

• 1. Schools for poor people

• 1. Public primary schools

• 1. Protestant Christian Schools

• 1. 
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1. Select the two (2) items that were the main contributors to pushing young people into schools during the 1900s.

• 1. Child labor laws

• 1. Compulsory military service

• 1. Compulsory attendance laws

• 1. The economy

1. Native American Boarding Schools were created to:

• 1. Provide a high quality education to Indigenous children

• 1. Provide basic education to Indigenous children as required by law

• 1. Destroy the culture and traditions of Indigenous populations

• 1. Destroy negative beliefs about Indigenous communities by highlighting their traditions

1. Half of the nation’s schools are highly segregated white schools because of:

• 1. De facto segregation

• 1. The fact that white students are more academically inclined than minoritized students

• 1. The fact that minoritized families prefer to live in minoritized communities

• 1. White families can afford to live in nicer neighborhoods

1. Prior to the 1960s, Latine families had access to Spanish instruction as long as their children attended a Spanish-run school.

• True

• False

1. Racial restrictions for citizenship, heavily framed around the immigration of Asians,  ended in the:

• 1910s

• 1930s

• 1950s

• 1980s

1. According to the chapter, Asian Americans are the perfect example of the way minoritized students should learn and behave.

• True

• False

1. Schools became organized by age group primarily because of:

• 1. Our growing understanding of economic and community development

• 1. Our growing understanding of child and adolescent development

• 1. Federal and state laws

• 1. The competition with religious schools

1. Despite the work over many decades, cultural diversity is still not integrated throughout our lessons, materials, and curricula.

• True

• False