Exam 16: Education

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

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.

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.

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 ___________.

__________ is the process by which children and recent immigrants become acquainted with the dominant cultural beliefs,values,norms,and accumulated knowledge of a society.

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?

___________ allows children with disabilities to work with a wide variety of people,including a regular education teacher,a special education teacher,a speech therapist,an occupational therapist,a physical therapist,and a resource therapist.

During the Middle Ages,the first colleges and universities were developed under the auspices of:

Schools promote awareness of and appreciation for cultural differences so that students can work and compete successfully in a diverse society and a global economy.This illustrates which manifest function of education?

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 their controversial book The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life,Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray argue that intelligence is:

According to the text's discussion of unequal funding as a source of inequality in education,which of the following is TRUE?

From a global perspective,describe formal education in postindustrial societies.

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

__________ refers to providing free,public schooling for wide segments of a nation's population.

A __________ is an unsubstantiated belief or prediction resulting in behavior that makes the originally false belief come true.

Although __________ societies have a written language,few people know how to read and write,and formal education is often reserved for the privileged.

Looking at the future of education,experts say that __________ is here to stay.This will include both the export of students from countries such as India and China to other countries to study,and the development of top-tier research universities in countries,including China,Singapore,and Saudi Arabia,where students may study without living abroad.

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.

The term used to describe a situation in which a person who is better Qualified but denied enrollment in an educational program or employment In a specific position as a result of another person receiving preferential Treatment as a result of affirmative action is called: