Exam 16: Education

In 2010,the Obama administration issued______________in an effort to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Describe the functionalist perspective on education.

Education serves an important purpose in all societies.At the microlevel,people must acquire the basic knowledge and skills they need to survive in society.At the macrolevel,the social institution of education is an essential component in maintaining and perpetuating the culture of a society across generations.

With regard to unequal funding of public schools,most educational funds come from the federal government and a small percentage from state legislative appropriations and local property taxes.

According to sociologist George Ritzer,______________can be thought of as a means of mass educational consumption that allows students to consume educational services and eventually obtain "goods" such as degrees and credentials.

Summarize education in a historical and global perspective.

Students may learn information in school that contradicts beliefs held by their parents or their religion.Debates over the content of textbooks and library books typically center on information that parents deem unacceptable for their children.This illustrates which latent function of education?

______________ is a process of social selection in which class advantage and social status are linked to the possession of academic qualifications.

Describe the conflict perspective on education.

How segregated are schools today?______________of all African American public school students in Illinois,Michigan and New York State attend predominantly black schools.

Describe the functionalist perspective on education and note the societal importance of manifest functions fulfilled by this social institution.

Explain what a MOOC is and what their impact will be on higher education by applying at least one of the theoretical perspectives discussed in the chapter with regard to education.

According to functionalists,the process of labeling is directly related to the power and status of those persons who do the labeling and those who are being labeled.For some students,labeling amounts to a self-fulfilling prophecy.

______________ theorists believe that tracking seriously affects many students' educational performances and their overall academic accomplishments.In elementary schools,tracking is often referred to as ability grouping and is based on the assumption that it is easier to teach a group of students who have similar abilities.

One goal of Obama's blueprint for education is to increase the role of______________in raising standards for all students and providing them with a well-rounded education so that they can contribute as citizens to the process of democracy and learn to thrive in a global economy.

Many schools have attempted to downstream children with disabilities by providing exclusion programs,under which the special education curriculum is segregated with the regular education program.

The Obama administration's attempt to reshape the educational system is______________known as______________.

Special programs for students who are disadvantaged (such as the Head Start program)or have disabilities are funded by:

______________ is a social system in which status is acquired through individual ability and efforts.

In 2000,the U.S.Supreme Court ruled in Gratz v.Bollinger that "separate but equal" segregated schools are unconstitutional because they are inherently unequal.