Vocabulary Quiz (Education)
- Question: Which name is commonly given to the group of eight colleges and universities in the northeastern United States that are noted for their high academic standards, selectivity in admissions, and social prestige?
- Answer: The eight Ivy League schools—Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell—are among the most prestigious institutions in the world.
- Question: What are HBCUs?
- Answer: With the help of the U.S. government, HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) were founded mainly throughout the South after the Civil War to help formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom.
- Question: What does vivisection mean?
- Answer: Dissection of dead animals is common in K–12 science classes, but vivisection, the dissection of a living organism, is not; vivisection is a common (and controversial) practice at the university level and in biomedical research and product testing.
- Question: Which of the following is true about “discharging” student debt?
- Answer: All of these are true about discharging student debt.
- Question: What does corporal mean in corporal punishment?
- Answer: Corporal means “related to the body,” so corporal punishment means physical punishment, such as hitting someone. Twenty-three U.S. states allow or haven’t officially banned corporal punishment for use in disciplining children in public schools.
- Question: What does “A&M” mean when attached to the name of universities?
- Answer: Federally funded universities in the 19th century were required to focus on “useful arts” such as agriculture, mechanics, mining, and military instruction and thus often included “A&M” (agricultural and mechanical) in their names.
- Question: Which of the following abbreviations is associated with an annual listing of books that are most frequently targeted for banning?
- Answer: The American Library Association (ALA) releases an annual report on the most “challenged” books.
- Question: What does parochial mean in terms of parochial education?
- Answer: Parochial means something is related to a church or church parish.
- Question: What’s the “Eight-Legged Essay”?
- Answer: The famed “Eight-Legged Essay,” so-called because of the essay’s eight parts, became a fixture of the Chinese empire during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and was a standard part of civil service tests for government jobs until the early 1900s.
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