EDUC 703 Quiz World War II & Politics
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Question 1
2 / 2 pts What German philosophy of education became prominent in Finland?
Froebelism
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Pestalozzianism
Herbart-Zillerism
Lutheranism
Question 2
2 / 2 pts Who were the Finneb¯rn?
Finnish children who were deported with their families to the Soviet Union until after Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa.
Finnish child-soldiers who fought and died during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
Finnish children who escaped to England only to become victims of the Birmingham Blitz.
Finnish children who were temporarily sent without their families to live with host families in Denmark.
Question 3
2 / 2 pts Immediately after World War II, what opened up accessibility and opportunity to higher education more than ever before?
Civil Rights Movement
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Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
National Education Association
Federal Department of Education
Question 4
2 / 2 pts The benefits of the GI Bill were unavailable to African Americans until after the 1964 Civil Rights Act. True
False
Question 5
2 / 2 pts Which president opened the U.S. Department of Education? Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Roosevelt
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Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush
Question 6
2 / 2 pts Since the U.S. Department of Education was established in 1979, some politicians have called for its closing. What is the primary argument that they have used?
Based on the Tenth Amendment, education should be a state concern since it is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution.
Other countries have higher achievement test scores without having a national department of education.
The decline in achievement can be traced directly to the implementation of the Department of Education.
Money used to fund the Department of Education could better be spent on teacher salaries.
Question 7
2 / 2 pts What did the Morrill Land Grant accomplish for education?
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Created agricultural and mechanical colleges.
Set aside a square mile of each township for public education.
Provided free public schools for children of land owners.
Distributed abandoned lands in the South for education of formerly enslaved persons.
Question 8
2 / 2 pts The National Defense Education Act was a response to what event? British burning of Washington, D.C., in War of 1812
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Soviet launch of Sputnik
Terrorist Attack of September 11, 2001
Question 9
2 / 2 pts Sequence the items in chronological order. 1
National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
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Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
3
A Nation at Risk
4
No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Question 10
2 / 2 pts Match the president to the corresponding item.
Franklin Roosevelt
GI Bill
Dwight Eisenhower
National Defense Education Act
Lyndon Johnson
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Bill Clinton
Goals 2000
Ronald Reagan
A Nation at Risk
George W. Bush
No Child Left Behind
Barack Obama
Race to the Top
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Question 11
8 / 8 pts SHORT ESSAY: Choose one of the options below. Respond in a brief essay of one or two paragraphs (8 points).
OPTION 1: What roles did John Dewey, Harold Rugg, and George S. Counts play in controversies related to public school curriculum and instructional methods?
OPTION 2: After the Vietnam War, how has American curriculum changed in its portrayal of World War II?
OPTION 3: Compare Horace Mann and Lyndon B. Johnson regarding their beliefs about the societal impact of education.
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OPTION 3: Compare Horace Mann and Lyndon B. Johnson regarding their beliefs about the societal impact of education.
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