Exam 16: Education

Discuss future issues and trends in education.

Tracking 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.Conflict theorists believe that tracking seriously affects many students' educational performance and their overall academic accomplishments.

Education keeps students off the street and out of the full-time job market for a number of years,thus helping keep unemployment within reasonable bounds.This illustrates which latent function of education?

Discuss the conflict perspective on education and explain how tracking produces social inequality.

Working-class and poverty-level income parents endow their children with more cultural capital than do middle- and upper-income parents.Because cultural capital is essential for acquiring an education,children with more cultural capital have fewer opportunities to succeed in school.

One study,cited in the text,of five elementary schools in different communities found significant differences in how knowledge was transmitted to students.Which of the following observations was NOT found?

______________ theorists examine educational practices that undermine female students' self­esteem and discourage them from taking certain courses,such as math and science,which were usually dominated by male teachers and students.

In preliterate societies,parents and other members of the group provide information about how to gather food,find shelter,make weapons and tools,and get along with others.This is accomplished through direct______________education.

Founded to overcome racism experienced by this population of students in traditional four-year colleges and to shrink the high dropout rate among college students of this same population,37 colleges are now chartered and run by______________.

Education serves an important purpose in all societies.At the______________,the social institution of education is an essential component in maintaining and perpetuating the culture of a society across generations.

______________ is the abolition of legally sanctioned racial-ethnic segregation.

Perhaps the earliest______________occurred in ancient Greece and Rome,where philosophers such as Socrates,Plato,and Aristotle taught elite males the skills required to become thinkers and orators who could engage in the art of persuasion.

In 1966,Charles Whitman went on a killing spree at the University of Virginia Tech.

______________ theorists believe that education contributes to the maintenance of society and provides people with an opportunity for self-enhancement and upward social mobility.They view education as one of the most important components of society.

The Southern part of the United States has the lowest dropout rates while the Northeast has the highest.

According to______________theorists,gender bias and the hidden curriculum are embedded in schools.For many years,reading materials,classroom activities,and treatment by teachers and peers contributed to a feeling among many girls and young women that they were less important than male students.

Schools play an active part in the process of assimilation,whereby recent immigrants learn dominant values,attitudes,and behavior so that they can be productive members of society.This illustrates which manifest function of education?

In many areas of the United States,schools remain racially segregated or have become resegregated after earlier attempts at integration failed.In 1954,the U.S.Supreme Court ruled in that "separate but equal" segregated schools are unconstitutional because they are Inherently unequal.

Middle- and upper-income parents endow their children with more______________than do working- class and poverty level parents.

Conflict theorists do not believe that public schools reduce social inequality in society;rather,they believe that schools often perpetuate class,racial/ethnic,and gender inequalities as some groups seek to maintain their privileged position at the expense of others.