Exam 16: Education

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

Postmodern views of higher education might incorporate the ideas of sociologist George Ritzer,who believes that "McUniversity" can be thought of as a means of educational consumption that allows students to consume educational services and eventually obtain "goods" such as degrees and credentials.

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

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 and each child is placed in a group and receives a team education plan (TEP).

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.

A primary purpose of __________ was to close the achievement gap between rich and poor students by holding schools accountable for students' learning.The law required states to test every student's progress toward meeting specific standards that were established for each level of schooling.

In kindergarten,children learn the appropriate attitudes and behavior for the student role.This illustrates which manifest function of education?

In regards to status dropout rates,which of the following statistics is NOT correct?

Harassment is just one problem facing students.Today,officials in schools ranging from the elementary years to two-year colleges and four-year universities are focusing on how to reduce or eliminate:

__________ 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.

___________ is a term describing 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.

There is much debate about whether the cost of higher education is worth the expense.In 2009,high school graduates earned $31,283 on average as compared to those with a bachelor's degree,who earned __________.

___________ programs are designed to mainstream children with disabilities.This is accomplished by taking the special education program curriculum and integrating it with the regular education program; each child receives an individualized education plan that provides annual educational goals.

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

In 2003,two U.S.Supreme Court decisions-Grutter v.Bollinger and Gratz v.Bollinger-made it legal to use __________ as a factor for Universities to grant preferential treatment in admissions.

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

Describe the functionalist perspective on education.

With the rapid growth of capitalism and factories during the __________,it became necessary for workers to have basic skills in reading,writing,and arithmetic.

Schools are responsible for identifying the most qualified people to fill available positions in society.As a result,students are channeled into programs based on individual ability and academic achievement.This illustrates which manifest function of education?

Describe inequality among elementary and secondary schools.