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Section II Activity 2: Multicultural Survey

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1. By the year 2000, what percentage of the student population in 53 major U.S. cities will be ethnic minorities?

a. 50%
b. 60%
c. 80%
d. 20%

2. Which areas in Florida are more impacted by the increase of language minority students?

a. urban areas
b. rural areas
c. both
d. neither

3. What is the number of Limited English Proficient (LEP) students in Florida?

a. 57,520
b. 110,060
c. 225,130
d. 24,006

4. What is the approximate number of LEP students in Southeast Florida?

a. 75,000
b. 15,000
c. 60,000
d. 30,000

5. If a student in the U.S. is Hispanic, was born outside the U.S., entered school speaking no English, lives in a family which is at or below the poverty line, and is male, his chances of graduating from high school are:

a. 50%
b. 25%
c. 0%
d. 10%

6. What percentage of the general population in Florida is Hispanic?

a. 5%
b. 24%
c. 12%
d. 62%

7. How many Hispanics held senior level jobs out of the 1,462 senior executives in Fortune 500 companies in 1985?

a. 20
b. 30
c. 15
d. 3

8. What is the percent increase of the LEP school population in Florida from the Fall of 1989 to that of 1991?

a. 25%
b. 31%
c. 12%
d. 50%

9. The home language survey is used to

a. determine how many non-English speaking relatives live in the student's home
b. determine whether the student's parents speak English
c. determine the number of LEP students in the school
d. determine if a language other than English is spoken at home

10. A Limited English Proficient student is

	a	an individual who was not born in the U.S.
	b.	an individual whose native language is not English
	c.	an individual whose native language is not English and has difficulty in listening, speaking, reading, or writing in English in the classroom
	d.	an individual who comes from a home environment where a language other than English is spoken

11. In counseling parents and guardians who may themselves be only partially fluent in English, the best way to help their children succeed in school, teachers and administrators should:

	a.	emphasize that using the children's native language in the home will not hinder and could help their English language development.
	b.	tell the parents to always speak English at home with their children.
	c.	tell the parents not to read stories to their children in their native language.
	d.	tell the parents to Americanize their children's names.

12. According to federal regulations, a school district is exempt from identifying, assessing, and providing appropriate services to meet the needs of the LEP students, if:

	a.	funds are unavailable.
	b.	the school district is never exempt from providing appropriate services to LEP students.
	c.	less than 10 LEP students are in the school district
	d.	there are no qualified personnel in the district.

13. The school district must do the following for immigrant students:

	a.	maintain lists of students with alien registration numbers.
	b.	report students with alien registration numbers to the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Services.
	c.	require the students' social security numbers.
	d.	none of the above

14. A school district is considered to be providing appropriate services to LEP students as long as these students receive

	a.	the same textbooks and curricula as English speaking students.
	b.	the same teachers.
	c.	the same facilities
	d.	none of the above is sufficient

15. Bilingual Education programs do all the following except

	a.	develop primary language skills.
	b.	promote better understanding between linguistic communities.
	c.	interfere with the acquisition of the English language
	d.	ensure access to equal education by all students.