Culture and Diversity

What is the term for a mental representation used to group similar events, ideas, objects, or people into a category, which helps organize vast amounts of information into manageable units?

What is the term for a group's shared common cultural characteristics such as history, homeland, language, traditions, or religion?

According to the text, what percentage of children in the United States lived in poverty in 2012?

What is the 'cultural deficit model'?

What is the term for a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people, composed of beliefs, emotions, and tendencies toward action?

What phenomenon is described as an 'apprehensiveness about confirming a stereotype' that can create an extra emotional and cognitive burden on an individual in a specific situation?

According to research by J. J. Cutuli and his colleagues, what percentage of homeless and highly mobile students from third through eighth grade achieved in the average or better range on math and reading tests, demonstrating resilience?

What term refers to the traits and behaviors that a particular culture judges to be appropriate for men and women, as distinct from biological differences?

Which of James Banks's five dimensions of multicultural education involves matching teaching styles to students' learning styles to facilitate academic achievement for diverse groups?

Gloria Ladson-Billings proposes three propositions for culturally relevant pedagogy. Which one states that students must develop a broader sociopolitical consciousness to critique social norms and institutions?

What is the acronym for individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning?

According to the 'Culture as an Iceberg' model, which of the following is considered a 'visible' sign of culture, akin to the tip of the iceberg?

The text describes an index called socioeconomic status (SES) which combines variations in wealth, power, and prestige. How many general levels of SES do most researchers identify?

What is the term for expectations about how males and females should behave, which vary by culture, time, and place?

In a large national study, what was found to be the strongest predictor of college attendance discrepancy between students in high-poverty versus middle- and high-income schools?

The phenomenon where students from lower-income homes lose academic ground during the summer while wealthier students make gains is known as what?

By what age do children typically develop an initial, often rigid, sense of gender roles and a gender schema?

The text describes a stereotype confronting Asian Americans where they are seen as perpetual foreigners. According to Stacey Lee's research, what term do teachers often use that reinforces this stereotype?

What is the primary reason that some educators suggest single-sex classrooms might be beneficial for boys?

Which of the following best describes a 'resilient student'?

What is the term used in the text for the study of the 'courtesies and conventions of conversation across cultures'?

By the year 2023, what fraction of the school-age population in the United States is projected to be African American, Asian, Latino/a, or from other ethnic groups?

According to research presented in the chapter, the average correlation between SES and achievement tests is approximately what?

The text discusses how prejudice develops in children. At what age does research suggest prejudice begins to form?

The withdrawal of the brightest students from schools when detracking occurs is a phenomenon known as what?

How much more likely are students who attend schools with peers from middle and high-income families to attend college compared to students in schools with peers from low-income homes?

What are 'participation structures' in a classroom context?

Which of the following values, shared by many Latina/o students, refers to the importance of close interpersonal relationships and discomfort with distant, professional interactions?

What percentage of doctorates in the U.S. in 2012 were awarded to African American students?

In the context of stereotype threat, what is 'disidentification'?

A study on summer learning found that the four summer vacations between second and sixth grade accounted for what percentage of the achievement difference between poor and advantaged students?

When infants as young as 3 months show a preference for faces of their own race, what is this an early example of?

What is the term for organized networks of knowledge about what it means to be male or female that help children make sense of the world and guide their behavior?

The two strands of elements that bind students to a resilient classroom community are self-agency and what other strand?

In 2011, what was the high school graduation completion rate for Hispanic students across the United States?

What is a 'resistance culture' in the context of student achievement?

What is the key difference between the 'melting pot' idea and the 'salad bowl' idea of multiculturalism?

How much more likely are poor children to experience stress from events like evictions, lack of food, or overcrowding compared to non-poor children?

What does the term 'self-agency' refer to in the context of creating a resilient classroom?

Which state had the highest overall high school graduation rate of 88 percent in 2011?

In studies of gender bias in teaching, what is one of the most consistently documented findings over the past 30 years regarding teacher interactions with boys versus girls?

What is the term for a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important?

In the Point/Counterpoint debate on tracking, what is one of the 'hidden costs' of detracking identified by Loveless (1999)?

What is the approximate ratio of play time that children aged 6 spend with same-sex playmates compared to opposite-sex playmates?

Which learning style is described in the text as being potentially characteristic of some African American students, involving a focus on people and relationships and energetic involvement in multiple activities?

In the school year 2011-2012, approximately how many students in the U.S. were homeless?

What is the primary difference between sex and gender as defined in the chapter?

What is one of the three general teaching principles offered as 'Lessons for Teachers' at the end of the chapter?

A key finding from a content analysis of television commercials is that men were how many times more likely than women to narrate commercials?

According to research by Bonny Hartley and Robbie Sutton, at what age do boys begin to believe the stereotype that girls are better in school?