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Worldview is:
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The way people characteristically look at the universe. It consists of values, beliefs, and assumptions or the way a cultural group perceives other people.
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Whites accounted for what percent of the 1990 census dropout rate?
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8.9%
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Define Stereotype. Give an example.
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exaggerated and inaccurate generaliztions used to decribe all members of a group. i.e. All Italians are in the Mafia.
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Blacks had this percentage of dropouts in the 1990 census?
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13.6%
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The 2nd generation of japanese immigrants that were eligible to own land are called what?
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Nisei
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How are gender and the self-fulfilling prophecy related?
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They are both good predictors of success.
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Asian/Pacific Islanders had a dropout rate of what, according to the 1990 census?
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9.6%
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What are the four types of Host Schools?
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Business As Usual, Assimilating,Plualistic Coexistant, Integrated Pluralism
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Percentage of school children who ethnic minorities.
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25%
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Integrated Pluralism in the schools avoids what?
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Resegregation
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Define Culture:
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The aquired knowledge that people use to interpret experience and to generate behavior.
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What is Self Concept?
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A complex set of beliefs that an individual holds about themself.
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How does Pluralistic Coexistance alter schools?
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It involves the seperation of different racial or ethnic groups.
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In regards to integration define: Business as Usual
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Nothing changes...the host school remains the same as when segregated.
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What were the results of Rosanthal and Jacobson's "Pygmalion study"?
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If students are rated by teachers prior to educationg them, the teacher will trreat them differently with altered expectations.
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Concerning integration, define: Assimilation
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The new students in the school must become the majority or be resgregated.
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What conclusions were drawn from the Rist study?
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many teachers have lowered expectations for Black and Mexican students, including teachers in those groups.
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Define Cultural Pluralism.
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A process of compromise characterized by mutual appreciation and respect between two or more groups.
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Cultures that have less sense of time, space and rules are referred to as:
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High Context Cultures
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As long as there is a value placed on an individuals ability to cipher a problem in society, that individual will be valued. This is an example of what?
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Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
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The American Indian/Alaska Natives are identified as having what dropout rate in 1990?
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44.5%
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The laws, customs and practices that systematically reflect and produce racial inequalities in American society are termed as what?
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Institutional Racism
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What is Lingua Franca?
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A common language that holds a society together.
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Cultures that have strict confimations to time and space and what is said is more important than who said it refers to:
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Low Context Cultures
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Who is responsible in the Difference Arguement?..Why?
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The school is responsible because of monocultural education. Students may be forced to learn in a different culture than they live in at home.
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What is Cultural Assimimilation?
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processes in which people of divers ethnic and racial backgrounds come to interact, free of constraints, in the life of the larger community.
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Explain the Deficit Arguemant.
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The poverty child is failing in school because they are not ready for school. The home is to blame for retarding develoment.
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What do the letters W.A.S.P. stand for?
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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
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According to the 1990 Census, what percent of Hispanics were dropouts?
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35.3%
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According to Longstreet, what is Scholastic Ethnicity?
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School Culture
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Monochronic or "white time" is desribed as what?
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process in which things are accomplished one at a time in a linear fashion.
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What is meant by the term "social values"?
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How an individual or group should or should not behave, or about some end of state of existance worth or not worth attaining.
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Polychronic or "black time" can best be described as what?
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a process in which schedules are invisible and many events occur at the same time.
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What percentage of Human Communication is non-verbal?
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50%-90%
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