Edu Professor Chavez

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Negotiations of groups of teachers regarding professional rights, salary, health care, and retirement policies are known as

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collective bargaining.

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Unified School District decides to change the terms of a teacher's contract in the middle of the school year. This breaking of the contract's agreements is called

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breaching

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Teacher tenure provides all but which one of the following?

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a specific, guaranteed teaching assignment

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Which constitutional amendment ensures the rights of both tenured and nontenured faculty to notification, hearings, and due process?

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Fourteenth

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Tenured teachers can be transferred under which one of the following conditions

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The transfer is part of a court-ordered desegregation plan.

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According to a study reported in the text, all but which one of the following are among the top four reasons for teacher termination?

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absenteeism

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“Duty of care” applies to which group?

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both teachers and counselors, whether on or off campus

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The case of Mancha v. Field Museum of Natural History concerned which aspect of public school law?

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teacher negligence

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Which concept is concerned with the extent to which teachers are well known for undesirable and controversial acts?

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notoriety

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Of the following court cases, which resulted in the ruling that political, philosophical, and religious groups must have the same access to the use of school facilities as other extracurricular groups?

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Board of Education of the Westside Community School v. Mergens

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Which state's board of education successfully approved the removal of references to evolution from its state curriculum standards?

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Kansas

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All but which of the following are considered to be student records under the Buckley Amendment?

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homework and classroom work

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Describe the goals of gay-straight student alliances on high school campuses.

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Goals include 1) creating safe environments in schools for students to support each other and learn about homophobia; 2) educating the school community about homophobia, gender identity, and sexual orientation; 3) fighting discrimination, harassment, and violence in schools.

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Define the term child abuse. Discuss an educator's responsibility, and his or her potential liability, in regard to suspected child abuse and neglect. List several indicators of abuse or neglect

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Definitions of abuse vary amoong states, but they generally include: 1) emotional or mental injury; 2) physical injury; 3) sexual molestation or exploitation; 4) negligent treatment. All states require that teachers, counselors, and administrators report suspected cases of child abuse and/or neglect to senior administrators. These administrators must report the information to local social service authorities. Teachers incur no liability when they make such a report, as long as charges were not made with malicious intent.