The NAEP Assessment Authorization, Public Law 103-227 is also known as
a. Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
b. No Child Left Behind.
c. Americans with Disabilities Act.
d. The Nations Report Card.
e. The Dream Act.
Question 2
In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act
a. prohibited discrimination against persons with disabilities.
b. covered only public employers with more than 25 employees.
c. applied only to education.
d. excluded persons in the District of Columbia and U.S. Territories.
Question 3
What was the major difference between the 1968 Handicapped Childrens Early Education Assistance Act and the 1975 94-142 legislation Education for all Handicapped Children Act?
a. The 1968 legislation was designed only for students living in the District of Columbia.
b. The 1968 legislation dealt with preschools and the 1975 legislation dealt with high schools.
c. The 1968 legislation authorized preschools for handicapped children and the 1975 legislation mandated that all children with disabilities be provided a free, appropriate education to meet their learning needs.
d. The 1968 legislation authorized preschools and added one grade per year until students had finished high school while the 1975 legislation went into effect as of the following year for all secondary programs.
Question 4
The purpose of the Morrill Act was to
a. promote morality after the Civil War.
b. establish and maintain agricultural and mechanical colleges.
c. fund hospitals in caring for Civil War veterans.
d. establish primary schools in the Deep South.
e. increase the high school graduation rate for African Americans in what used to be the Confederacy.
Question 5
Which of the following was not part of the Land Ordinance Act of 1785?
a. The size of new Congressional townships
b. Selling of four 1-square mile sections
c. Refunding surplus funds to the states
d. The 16th section sales receipts to be used for education funding
e. 36 square mile Congressional townships
Question 6
Elwood Cubberley discussed four school conditions. Which was not one of them?
a. Great school conditions
b. Good school conditions
c. Mixed conditions
d. Pauper and parochial school conditions
e. No action group
Question 7
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution did not mention
a. establishment of religion.
b. Freedom of Speech.
c. quartering soldiers in private homes.
d. education.
e. the right to wear sleeveless shirts (bear arms?).
Question 8
The colonial Connecticut legislation in 1650 had a provision to
a. remove children and servants from the homes of those who did not comply with the legislation to educate the children (sons and servants).
b. educate boys and girls to the same level in reading and writing.
c. withhold state funding to schools where children did not pass the state mandated tests.
d. require the licensing of teachers by Masters at Yale .
Question 9
The law of 1642 did not work and was changed in what year?
a. 1643
b. 1644
c. 1645
d. 1646
e. 1647
Question 10
The first school finance law passed in our country was enacted by
a. the Jamestown settlers.
b. the Massachusetts Bay Colony settlers.
c. the Connecticut settlers.
d. the Irish setters.
e. the Rhode Island settlers.
Question 11
One study has shown that teachers work the equivalent of 52.5 forty-hour work weeks per year and yet are usually paid for 10 months of work
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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