All of the Following About No Child Left Behind Are

question 12

Multiple Choice

All of the following about No Child Left Behind are true except

• A) it was passed during the administration of President George W. Bush.
• B) one of its main aims was to decrease the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.
• C) it had very little support from Democrats.
• D) many states consider it an unfunded mandate.
• E) many critics charge that the federal government has failed to fund it adequately.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The quantity of distinct values or amounts that a statistical distribution can accept.

Population Variance

A measure of the spread of a population’s values, indicating how much the individuals within the population differ from the population mean.

Chi-Squared Distributed

Referring to a statistical distribution that is used to describe the distribution of the sum of squares of a set of variables, often used in hypothesis testing.

T-Distribution

A statistical distribution that occurs when calculating the average of a population with a normal distribution, under conditions where the sample size is small and the population's variance is not known.