Exam 16: Education

Storytelling and ritualistic ceremonies that convey cultural messages and provide behavioral norms are an example of:

______________ refers to the practice of assigning students to specific curriculum groups and courses on the basis of their test scores,previous grades,or other criteria.

In the United States,the free public school movement was started in 1848 by______________,who stated that education should be the "great equalizer."

Education serves an important purpose in all societies.At the______________,people must acquire the basic knowledge and skills they need to survive in society.

Identify the major trends facing education in the United States in the immediate future.

List and discuss some of the inequalities found in elementary and secondary schools in the United States.

Functionalists acknowledge that education has certain______________that are evident by lagging test scores.

From the______________perspective,there is an emphasis in higher education on how to make colleges and universities more efficient and how to bring these institutions into the service of business and industry.

What measure estimates the percentage of both public and private high school students who left high school between the beginning of one school year and the beginning of the next without earning a high school diploma or an alternative credential such as a GED?

A MOOC can have as______________many as______________students at the same time.

Describe symbolic interactionist perspectives on education and explain the significance of labeling and the self-fulfilling prophecy on educational achievement.

Race,class,language,gender,and many other social categories may determine the placement of children in elementary______________systems as much as or more than their actual abilities and interests.

Affirmative Action is a term that describes policies or procedures that are intended to promote equal opportunity for categories of people deemed to have been previously excluded from equality in education,employment,and other fields on the basis of characteristics such as race or ethnicity.

The process whereby others identify a person as possessing a specific characteristic or exhibiting a certain pattern or behavior is referred to as:

______________ is defined as the learning that takes place within an academic setting such as a school,which has a planned instructional process and teachers who convey specific knowledge,skills,and thinking processes to students.

Because schools bring together people of similar ages,social class,and race/ethnicity,young people often meet future marriage partners and develop social networks that may last for many years.This is an example of the manifest function of socialization in education.

Community colleges provide significant educational opportunities to students across lines of income,gender,and race/ethnicity.Which of the following statements about community colleges is FALSE?

As student populations diversify over time,new educational programs are introduced to meet societal needs.For example,sex education,drug education,and multicultural studies have been implemented in some schools to help students learn about pressing social issues.This illustrates which manifest function of education?

The weekly earnings gap between those individuals that do not earn a high school diploma and those who earn a bachelor's degree or higher is about______________.

Describe future issues and trends in American education.