__________ percent of all American children between the ages of 5 and 19 are enrolled in school.

The non-Marxian version of the conflict perspective is referred to as the __________ approach.

Madeleine M. Kunin points out that in 1992, __________ percent of the U.S. population had finished high school.

A major factor in the lower educational attainment of blacks compared with whites is the fact that before World War I, about __________ percent of all blacks in the United States lived in the southern states.

According to the text, Hispanic Americans:

The primary cause of dropping out of school is:

Ann Parker Parelius and Robert J. Parelius have documented the extent of __________ in the American educational system.

The text cites Project __________, which was a systematic longitudinal study conducted in the Tennessee schools, confirming that smaller classes yield better results.

The text observes that the latest technological innovation to assume the dubious status of a "technological fix" is the:

Desegregation effectively began with the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in:

In 1991, the Supreme Court held that the Oklahoma City schools could be permitted to cease:

Membership in teachers' trade unions like the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers has risen from less than 10 percent of all teachers in the early 1960s to __________ percent at present.

The __________ is the nation's largest educational institution.

The "back to basics" movement found support in the 1983 report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, which was entitled:

The average salary for elementary and secondary school teachers is now: