Bilingual students often have greater metalinguistic awareness than do their monolingual peers

Which of the following factors is a reason for the superior academic performance of Finnish as compared to American children?

A) All Finnish students receive the same nationally mandated, high-quality instruction. B) Finnish parents regard native ability as the key to academic success. C) Finland has a national testing system used to ability-group students. D) Finnish teachers focus more on the fundamentals of education.

Which of the following best describes when dendritic connections between neurons multiply vastly?

a. overproduction b. sprouting c. anchoring d. overstimulization