Where Is Tracking a Particularly Widespread Practice

question 28

Multiple Choice

Where is tracking a particularly widespread practice?

• A) in large, diverse school systems and in schools serving primarily lower-class students
• B) in religiously affiliated schools with sizable immigrant populations
• C) in upper-middle-class suburban schools, whether private or public
• D) in new parochial schools with relatively inexperienced faculties

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Definitions:

Government Purchases

Expenditures by the government sector for goods and services that it intends to consume or invest in as part of its economic activities.

Stabilize Output

Involves government or central bank interventions to minimize fluctuations in a country's economic production or GDP over the business cycle.

Aggregate Demand

The total demand for all goods and services within an economy at various price levels, in a given time period.

Automatic Stabilizer

Economic policies and programs, such as unemployment benefits and taxation, that automatically adjust to counteract economic fluctuations without direct intervention by policymakers.