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31. Research on school size has encouraged some large high schools to switch to a(n) ____________ reorganization, with each subunit having its own student body and teaching staff. a. schools-within-schools b. academic tracking c. developmental consolidation d. open classroom 32. Benefits of schools-within-schools reorganization include which of the following? a. better social relationships b. safer school atmospheres c. greater commitment to school d. all of these 33. As a whole, teens who drop out of high school a. have poorer reading skills and a long history of disengagement from school. b. are typically loners, who have few friends and a lack of support from their families. c. have been working too many hours at a part-time job. d. are characterized by all of these. 34. The environmental factors that are closely linked to academic success are a. economic opportunities. b. school characteristics. c. parental expectations. d. all of these. 35. The environmental factors that are most closely linked to academic success include all of the following EXCEPT for a. economic opportunities. b. school characteristics. c. peer expectations. d. parental expectations. 36. When businessman Gene Lang heard that three-fourths of the students in New York’s P.S. 121 (his old school) would drop out before high school graduation, he told the students that a. he would provide a job for every student that stayed in school and graduated. b. he would provide college tuition for every student who stayed in school and graduated. c. his business would adopt the school and reorganize it into a schools-within-schools structure. d. he would provide monetary incentives each year to parents that kept their children in school with less than ten absences per year. 37. In addition to promising the students’ college tuition if they graduated, businessman Gene Lang also a. coordinated a project that provided mentoring during the years between sixth grade and graduation. b. provided financial incentives each year to parents who kept their children in school with less than ten absences per year. c. reorganized the school into a schools-within-schools structure. d. did all of these. 38. Four years after Gene Lang promised to provide college tuition for every student in the sixth grade at P.S. 121 who stayed in school and graduated, _______ of the students were still in school. a. 50 percent b. 75 percent c. 90 percent d. 100 percent 39. Dropout rates are lower in schools that a. offer more academic courses. b. enjoy positive student-teacher relationships. c. set high standards and expect that most students will succeed. d. provide all of these. 40. People’s belief that they can control important outcomes in their lives by their actions is referred to as a. primary motivation. b. self-efficacy. c. self-actualization. d. cognitive empowerment.