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asmith134

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Which of the following statements about the U.S. and international schools is FALSE?
 
  a. Internationally, education seems to run in two extremes; some children receive excellent education and others receive little or no education at all.
  b. On many standardized tests administered throughout the world, the United States
  lags behind many other advanced industrialized nations.
  c. In some countries, girls are excluded from school for legal, religious, cultural, or economic reasons.
  d. Students in the United States receive lower math scores today than they did in 1990.

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Social scientists now distinguish between a dimension of stratification measurable by quantifiable variables and a dimension involving how people evaluate themselves and others. These can be termed the __________ dimensions.
 
  a. measured and unmeasured
  b. real and imagined
  c. objective and subjective
  d. experienced and perceived


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chem1s3

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Reply #1 on: Jul 2, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

c


asmith134

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Reply 2 on: Jul 2, 2018
Excellent

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