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Middle-class teachers often come to believe that poor children cannot learn, and these teachers treat them accordingly. Responding to these expectations, poor children often perform poorly in school. This situation involves a/an __________.
 
  a. tragedy of minuscule proportions
  b. poverty repetition
  c. cycle of ignorance
  d. expectation drought
  e. self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 2

How long did the Little Ice Age last?
 
  a. 200 years
  b. 400 years
  c. 600 years
  d. 1,000 years



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Answer to Question 1

e

Answer to Question 2

c



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