President George W. Bush’s landmark education law, No Child Left Behind, required all schools to bring all students to high levels of achievement. But it ignored the fact that students from low-income households perform less well in school, on average than students from more affluent backgrounds.   Given the current political and economic climate, a significant effort to reduce poverty is not likely to happen. So what can be done?  Since they can’t take on poverty itself, education policy-makers should try to provide poor studentswith the social support and experiences that middle-class students take for granted: afterschool programs, summer camps, school-based health centers, and mentoring and enrichment services.  Other countries already pursue such strategies. In Finland, which boasts high-performing schools, schools provide food and free health care for students.   Developmental needs are addressed early. Counseling services are abundant.  Why can’t we do the same thing here in America?   The pattern of organization is ______________.

Tacit knowledge is knowledge that is not formally or openly expressed. 2Knowing how to win a promotion, cut through red tape, or when to reward or criticize subordinates are all  _______________of tacit knowledge.

Hay fever is a genetic abnormality; it runs in families. Some individuals simply aregenetically predisposed to overreact to certain kinds of pollen _________________,infections, emotional stress, and changes in temperature may trigger immune reactions to pollen.

The sentence–But the buying and selling of slaves still take place in many countries in Asia, the Middle East, and especially Africa.– is a 

In 1913, technological advocate Thomas Edison stated, “Books will soon be obsolete in the schools. . . . It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture.”  In like manner, in the 1980s, when microcomputers became affordable, some educational visionaries predicted the end of classroom instruction and the end of the teaching profession as we know it.   The pattern of organization is ______________.

The main idea of this paragraph is 

In Egypt, people learn to eat grasshoppers partly by watching others enjoy themselves while eating grasshoppers. ________________________, we learn  patterns of speech, styles of dress, types of energy consumption, methods of rearing children, and many other kinds of behavior by observing others

Fill in each blank with an appropriate transition from the box. Use each transition once. Then, in the space provided, write the letter of the transition you have chosen.

Which of the following is the main idea?

Identify each item with the letter of its main pattern of organization.