Chapter 7: Who Gets Ahead? Race, Class, and Gender in Education

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. The practice of offering courses at different levels of difficulty within subject area is an example of ______.

A. between-school inequality

B. within-school inequality

C. horizontal curriculum

D. none of these

2. Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas stated that ______.

A. religion couldn’t be practiced in school

B. racially separated schools are inherently unequal

C. parents have the right to homeschool their children

D. all of these

3. According to Logan, Minca, and Adar, studies have shown that ______.

A. Black students attend schools with a less experienced teaching staff than do White students

B. Hispanic students attend public schools in which most of the children are below the poverty line

C. the largest central city school are 70% Black and Hispanic

D. all of these

4. According to Logan, Minca, and Adar, when controlling for all other variables, it is shown that ______ is the greatest indicator of a school’s achievement level.

A. poverty level

B. racial composition

C. location

D. poverty level and location only

5. According to Duncan and Murnane, why do children of low- and high-income families often attend separate schools?

A. admission challenges

B. residential segregation by income

C. discrimination

D. none of these

6. What prevents even wealthy parents from getting their children into desirable schools, according to Lareau, Evans, and Yee?

A. district boundaries

B. lack of social connections

C. lack of understanding of admissions process

D. none of these

7. Morris in the article “Rednecks, Rutters and Rithmetic,” felt hegemonic masculinity was related to ______.

A. academic nonchalance

B. physical toughness

C. school engagement

D. none of these

8. Which of the following is NOT an explanation of racial inequality in educational achievement as described by Persell?

A. political explanations

B. genetic explanations

C. structural explanations

D. cultural explanations

9. As described in the Persell article, Herrnstein and Murray’s Bell Curve provides an argument in support of ______ explanations for racial inequality in education.

A. genetic

B. structural

C. cultural

D. economic

10. Tracking and ability grouping influences students’ exposure to the ______.

A. formal curriculum

B. hidden curriculum

C. informal curriculum

D. vertical curriculum

11. According to Mickelson, males continue to outnumber women in ______ programs.

A. English

B. Nursing

C. Engineering

D. Sociology

12. Which is NOT an explanation used by Mickelson for the gender gap in education?

A. Labor discrimination no longer exists.

B. Women are not as educated as men.

C. Women expect returns on schooling from spouse's occupational success.

D. Women are socialized to respond to external validation.

13. One of the reasons Mickelson gives for why boys don't do as well in schools as girls is ______.

A. females attend better schools

B. females are socialized to believe they are smarter

C. males get better jobs and higher pay regardless of how well they do in school

D. males are more focused on sexuality and competition than females

True/False

1. Minorities often attend different schools than majorities.

2. Studies have found that immigrant students typically have lower educational outcomes than native born students.

3. According to Duncan and Murnane, children surrounded by lower-income classmates can perform just as well as those surrounded by more affluent classmates.

4. Middle-class parents like to have their children engage in activities because of the future opportunities that it could give to them.

5. Outside of school, working-class children are more likely to be engaged in religious-based activities than their middle-class peers.

6. Schools always serve to level class differences by offering structured activity participation that are tied to individual schools.

7. Students in the Texas high school studied by Morris used “rutter” as a positive identity and “redneck” as a negative identity.

8. According to Persell, Black students value education at least as much as White students.

9. Academic achievement of Blacks is more likely to be influenced by the racial composition of the school/community than is academic achievement for Whites.

10. Mickelson finds that males from higher social class backgrounds do just as well as females in terms of academic achievement.

11. Mickelson reported that males do better than females on SAT tests.