EDFN Test 1 Questions &
Answers
Meritocracy - ANSWERSA system in which individuals who are the most talented and ambitious
deserve to achieve at the highest social and economic levels.
Cultural Capital - ANSWERSEndowments such as academic competence, language competence,
and wealth that provide an advantage to an individual, family, or group.
Model Minority - ANSWERSA stereotype about a group that characterizes all members of the
group as academically and economically successful because of the group's cultural norms that
promote hard work and education.
Stereotype Threat - ANSWERSA phenomenon in which the common stereotypes about our
group influence how we perceive ourselves.
School-to-prison Pipeline - ANSWERSThe Process in which factors such as student absenteeism,
failing a grade, suspension, and expulsion become predecessors to being arrested and spending
time in prison.
Zero-Tolerance - ANSWERSSchool policies that call for punishing any infraction of a rule.
Canon - ANSWERSThe books, values, and principles that call for punishing any infraction of a
rule.
Multiple Perspectives - ANSWERSViews from people or groups of people whose histories and
experiences provide different ways of looking at a current even or past even, policies, research
and practices in the world.
Answers
Meritocracy - ANSWERSA system in which individuals who are the most talented and ambitious
deserve to achieve at the highest social and economic levels.
Cultural Capital - ANSWERSEndowments such as academic competence, language competence,
and wealth that provide an advantage to an individual, family, or group.
Model Minority - ANSWERSA stereotype about a group that characterizes all members of the
group as academically and economically successful because of the group's cultural norms that
promote hard work and education.
Stereotype Threat - ANSWERSA phenomenon in which the common stereotypes about our
group influence how we perceive ourselves.
School-to-prison Pipeline - ANSWERSThe Process in which factors such as student absenteeism,
failing a grade, suspension, and expulsion become predecessors to being arrested and spending
time in prison.
Zero-Tolerance - ANSWERSSchool policies that call for punishing any infraction of a rule.
Canon - ANSWERSThe books, values, and principles that call for punishing any infraction of a
rule.
Multiple Perspectives - ANSWERSViews from people or groups of people whose histories and
experiences provide different ways of looking at a current even or past even, policies, research
and practices in the world.
