Deck 4: Understanding the Impact of Urban Education on Urban Health

Question 1

IQ testing, initially used to determine intellectual capabilities and identify those who were "intellectually inferior" and "feeble-minded," provided the science that has been used to formulate and justify current test-based practices and policies.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

One's health status has little impact on their engagement within the education system and vice versa.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

__________ was the landmark case in which racially segregated schools were declared unconstitutional on the basis that "separate was not equal."

A) Plessy v. Ferguson
B) Brown v. Board of Education
C) Ferguson v. Board of Education
D) Brown v. Ferguson

Answer 3

B

Question 4

List two of the negative consequences of early desegregation efforts.
Potential

Question 5

The "demographic imperative" points to a persistent lack of racial, cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic diversity within which two populations?

A) K-12 students and K-12 teachers
B) K-12 teachers and teacher educators
C) K-12 students and teacher educators
D) None of these is correct.

Question 6

__________ is a term that refers to the persistent difference in academic performance, primarily as measured by state-mandated standardized tests, between students from emerging minority groups/students living in low-income areas and their White, more affluent counterparts.

A) Performance gap
B) Ability gap
C) Achievement gap
D) Demographic imperative

Question 7

The __________ was the precursor to the compulsory public education system we have today.

Question 8

__________ is the difference in the cultural frames of reference and daily
lived realities between students and their teachers that can limit teachers' capacity to function as role models for students or act as cultural brokers/agents in attempts to bridge home and school experiences.

Question 9

Geographic location and socioeconomic status are two primary factors and predictors of one's access to and engagement with both the health care and education systems.

Question 10

VPLNs, or __________, are uniquely personalized spaces where participants can engage in dialogue with a network of individuals from around the world via social media platforms, such as Twitter, to support one another's continuous professional learning.

A) Virtual Platforms for Learning News
B) Vast Professional Learning Networks
C) Virtual Professional Learning Networks
D) Visual Professional Learning Networks