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What does Universal Primary Education belong to?
international Millennium Development Goals
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What is one issue that hurts Universal Primary Education?
charitable funding
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Which organization has discovered corruption in the educator sector?
Transparency International
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What has come from similarities in systems?
increase in international student exchanges
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Which programfacilitates the exchange students across Europe?
The European Socrates-Erasmus Program
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Which group provides opportunities for Eastern Europe and Asia exchange students?
The Soros Foundation
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What does LCPS stand for?
low cost private schools
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What was the reason for the polarisation for affordable schooling?
disputes around whether the schools are affordable for the poor
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Where are these types of school spreading across?
Africa and Asia
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What are some of the claims being pointed towards education inequality?
children did not exceed the education of their parents
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Who do students often blame for their education short comings?
teachers and their textbooks
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What happens when someone tries to improve education?
the educational establishment itself occasionally showers the person with criticism rather than gratitude
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What is the discrepancy between Developed and less developed countries?
Developed countries have people with more resources
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What resources do developed countries have better access to?
housing, food, transportation
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What is common in developed countries?
criticism and blame
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What is one good trait about students from developed countries?
have the will and the way to do many things
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What use of technology can greatly supplement how teachers teach in the classroom?
internet
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What do students also need occasionally before putting blame on teachers?
gratitude for the resources they have
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What is the meaning of Education psychology?
the study of how humans learn in educational settings
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What is also used interchangeably with Education psychology?
school psychology
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Who are likely to be identified as educational psychologist?
researchers and theorists
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What is educational psychology concerned with?
the processes of educational attainment
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How can Educational psychology in part be understood?
through its relationship with other disciplines
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How is the method of educational psychology have some relation to medicine and biology?
discipline analogous
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Where does education psychology draw from?
contributes to cognitive science and the learning sciences
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In universities where are the departments of educational psychology normally held?
faculties of education
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What is important for a student in education?
Intelligence
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What does education increase in a student?
measurable intelligence
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What is intelligence at 53 more closely related to?
intelligence at 8
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Who focused on identifying stimuli that can influence learning?
Dunn
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Who also along with Dunn recommended other teaching studies?
Joseph Renzulli
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Who created the Type Delineator?
David Kolb and Anthony Gregorc's
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What do some theories believe?
that all individuals benefit from a variety of learning modalities
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What should be included in effective teaching?
teaching methods which cover all three learning modalities
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What can Philosophy education be when we talk about the process?
philosophy of the process of education or the philosophy of the discipline of education
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What defines Philosophy education?
the philosophical study of education and its problems
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What fields make up field education and a field applied philosophy?
metaphysics, epistemology, axiology and the philosophical approaches
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What is another term used for instructors?
teachers
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What are the main subjects that are covered by the instructor?
reading, writing, mathematics, science and history
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In the United States what is considered the single most important factor in a child's education?
quality of teachers
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What is the theory behind Empirical analyses?
poor countries should grow faster than rich countries
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What has been argued about high rates in education?
essential for countries to be able to achieve high levels of economic growth
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What is greatly needed with technology transfer when it relates to education?
requires knowledgeable managers and engineers
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Literature on how earnings and how it relates to schooling was greatly influenced by who?
Jacob Mincer
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This view of how schooling and earnings has sparked a lot of studies, but what else has it brought up?
is also controversial
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What was one of the main concerns of this literature on how schooling and earnings?
not achieve their full academic potential, due to financial difficulties
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Which state borders Tennessee to the east?
North Carolina
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Which mountains occupy much of eastern Tennessee?
Appalachian Mountains
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Which river marks Tennessee's border to the west?
Mississippi River
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What is the capital of Tennessee?
Nashville
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What is Tennessee's most populous city?
Memphis
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What government formed in 1772 is considered the forerunner of Tennessee?
Watauga Association
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What state held territory that would later become part of Tennessee?
North Carolina
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What date did Tennessee become one of the United States of America?
June 1, 1796
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Which was the final state to join the Confederacy before Civil War fighting started?
Tennessee
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Which of the Confederate states rejoined the Union first when the Civil War concluded?
Tennessee
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Which part dominated Tennessee's politics in the late 1880s?
Democratic
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Which Tennessee city was received significant federal investment in the 1940s?
Oak Ridge
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What part of the Manhattan Project did Tennessee host?
uranium enrichment facilities
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What made Tennessee politics more competitive again in the middle of the 20th century?
civil rights legislation
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What locale in Memphis is know as the place where blues was born?
Beale Street
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What Tennessee recording company first promoted Elvis Presley?
Sun Records
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Which Tennessee city is home to the Country Music Hall of Fame?
Nashville
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Which museum celebrating popular music is located in Jackson, Tennessee?
International Rock-A-Billy Museum
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In which year is W.C. Handy first known to have been playing in Tennessee clubs?
1909
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What is Tennessee's primary non-meat agricultural product?
soybeans
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Which national park in Tennessee sees more visitors that any other in the United States?
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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What trail forms part of the border Tennessee shares with North Carolina?
Appalachian Trail
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Which Tennessee city hosts the state's most famous aquarium?
Chattanooga
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What tourist attraction is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee?
Dollywood
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Who first recorded a territorial name in the region that resembles its current name Tennessee?
Captain Juan Pardo
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Which Native Americans had a town called Tanasi in present day Monroe County, Tennessee?
Cherokee
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Tanasi is know to have been located and mapped by British traders by which year?
1725
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What nationality was Juan Pardo?
Spanish
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Which governor is given credit for the name Tennessee as it is now spelled?
James Glen
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Which work by Henry Timberlake made the current spelling of Tennessee widely popular?
Draught of the Cherokee Country
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Which state created a county called Tennessee in 1788?
North Carolina
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Which two Tennessee counties cover the area that comprised North Carolina's Tennessee County?
Montgomery County and Robertson County
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In which year did a constitutional convention meet to form a new state out of the unincorporated territory that would become Tennessee?
1796
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By what nickname is Tennessee officially known?
Volunteer State
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Which major conflict that included the Battle of New Orleans is said to have given Tennessee its nickname?
War of 1812
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What conflict overseen by President Polk might be the source of Tennessee's nickname?
Mexican–American War
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How many volunteers did Tennessee send to the Mexican-American War?
30,000
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Which local icon's death inspired many of the Tennessee volunteers during the Mexican-American War?
Davy Crockett
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What is the elevation of Tennessee's highest point?
6,643 feet
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What mountain in Tennessee is the Appalachian Trail's highest point?
Clingmans Dome
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What river is situated on Tennessee point of lowest elevation?
Mississippi River
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Which city marks the geographical center of Tennessee?
Murfreesboro
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Approximately how many miles long is Tennessee's Ridge and Valley region?
55
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What is the western part of the Tennessee Valley called?
the Great Valley
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Which city is Tennessee's fourth largest?
Chattanooga
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Together, Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport are known by what name?
the Tri-Cities
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What river forms in the Tennessee Valley?
Tennessee River
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Which Tennessee airport has the code TYS?
McGhee Tyson Airport
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What is the name of the airport serving Chattanooga, TN?
Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport
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What interstate highways cross the Grand Division in Tennessee?
I-24, I-81, I-40, I-75, and I-26
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An airport with which code serves the Tri-Cities area in Tennessee?
TRI
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What is the lowland area of Tennessee between the Tennessee River and Mississippi River called?
Tennessee Bottoms
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What geographical region lies west of the Tennessee bottom land?
Mississippi Alluvial Plain
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What maximum elevation is the land in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain?
300 feet (90 m) above sea level
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