Chapter 11: Can Schools Change? Educational Reform and Change

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. The first broad educational reform in the United States, as described in the Introduction to Chapter 11, was associated with ______.

A. Goals 2000

B. Race to the Top

C. No Child Left Behind

D. A Nation at Risk

8. Current educational reforms in the United States are focused on ______.

A. language skills

B. mathematics and science skills

C. standards and testing

D. teacher skills

9. According to Apple, educational reforms can be unsuccessful even when they have good intentions because ______.

A. schools will not enforce them

B. policy makers are unaware of the realities of classrooms

C. low-income students cannot fulfill the requirements

D. all of these

10. According to Apple, conservative social movements are successful because ______.

A. they are powerful

B. they can connect to people who may ordinarily disagree with them

C. they have an understanding of peoples’ experiences and fears

D. all of these

11. No-excuses schools were originally created to ______.

A. improve achievement in urban schools

B. discipline children with behavioral problems

C. improve teacher performance

D. none of these

12. Which is not a result of no-excuse discipline?

A. narrowed achievement gap

B. strong interpersonal skills

C. lowered student confidence

D. none of these

13. According to Illich, neither learning nor justice is promoted by schooling because educators insist on packaging instruction with ______.

A. curriculum

B. specialization

C. stratification

D. certification

14. According to Illich, teaching basic skills ______.

A. is not necessary

B. could be done by anyone with a little training

C. would be difficult to accomplish in a deschooled society

D. would require regular schools for short periods of time

15. In order to achieve deschooling in society, Illich argued that ______.

A. schools would have to be reshaped to include adults

B. more social services would have to be added to schools

C. laws would have to be changed to keep unschooled people from being discriminated against

D. all of these

True/False

1. There is a tendency for schools to remain “as is” rather than create long-term change.

2. According to Golan, no-excuse schools prepare students for college well.

3. No-excuse schools eliminate social inequality in cultural skills.

4. Conservatives are more successful than progressives in the realm of school reform.

5. Educators play a big role in school reform.

6. Teacher–student relationships suffer at no-excuse schools.

7. Teachers should use a warm/strict teaching style in school environments according to Golan.

8. An advantage of a deschooled society is that people’s networks should expand.

9. Illich explains that making intellectual matches in a deschooled society could be as simple as putting a book next to your coffee mug in a coffee shop.

10. According to Illich, most learning is the result of teaching.