Final- Chapter 4: Student Life in School and at Home

Question 1

Who wrote the book Life in Classrooms? What does it describe?

Answer 1

• Philip W Jackson

- How time is spent in school

Question 2

Jackson suggest that, whereas teachers are typical busy, students are often caught in patterns of _____ that force them to __ _____

Answer 2

• Delay

- Do nothing

Question 3

In a classic study of school, did John Goodland found a fair degree of consistency or inconsistency in how time is spent in different activities as children go through the grades?

Answer 3

Consistency

Question 4

In Goodland’s study, though time was spent consistently, there was a variation in the ______ with which different schools use time

Answer 4

Efficiency

Question 5

As gatekeepers, teachers must to what?

Answer 5

Determine who will talk,when and for how long, as well as the basic direction of communication

Question 6

______ is the term given to assigning students with different abilities to different tracks of courses and programs

Answer 6

Tracking

Question 7

What did Jeannie Oaks find in her “Keeping Track” indictment

Answer 7

She found that race more than ability determined which students are placed in which tracks

Question 8

There is an effort to detract, which means what?

Answer 8

Eliminating tracking practices from the nations schools

Question 9

The term “tracking” has fallen out of favor, and what term is now preferred?

Answer 9

Ability grouping

Question 10

What is ability grouping? What is an example?

Answer 10

• Sorts students based on capability, but the grouping may well vary by subject
• Being in a high-level math class but a low-level English class

Question 11

The gender wall that blocks boys and girls from interacting is stronger than ______ barriers

Answer 11

Racial

Question 12

What are sociograms?

Answer 12

Social preferences represented in a graph describing verbal communication between students, the more lines, the more communication.

Question 13

In a sociogram, children with no lines drawn are considered to be _______

Answer 13

Isolates

Question 14

What are these examples of? Whats the def?

• Single parent with children
• Biological parents who are not married
• Relatives/friends acting as guardians
• same-sex couples
• non-married couples living as families
• serial relationships w/ continually changing partners

Answer 14

Alternative families- family lifestyles other than a married male and female living with their children

Question 15

What is a latchkey kid?

Answer 15

One of 4 million children left to care for themselves after school

Question 16

Which act provided the homeless w/ emergency food services, adult literacy programs, access to schooling, job training, and other assistance?

Answer 16

McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance

Question 17

According to Professor Lyn Mikel Brown, what are the four steps educators need to do to deal with bullying?

Answer 17

1) Talk accurately about behavior
2) Move beyond the individual
3) Stop labeling students
4) Accentuate the positive