Exam 6: Educational Inequality

_______ can be described as who you know, whereas _______ is what you know.

There is substantial evidence backing the oppositional culture thesis.

Philosophies such as "kill the Indian and save the man," which were at the core of Indian Schools, reveal how the underlying belief behind assimilation was that:

What is the school to prison pipeline? How do these practices shape outcomes for youth of color?

How do affirmative action programs allow admissions committees to use racial diversity in their decision to admit a student to a university?

Claire is a high school student who hopes to attend an Ivy League university. Both of her parents went to Stanford, her guidance counselors are well-connected with Ivy League institutions, and a close family friend is on the admissions board at Princeton. Claire has relatively high levels of _______ that will likely help her gain acceptance to her college of choice.

Sociologists Vincent Roscigno and James Ainsworth-Darnell found that _________could explain about half of the difference between the test scores of Black and White children.

Because Asian students are outperforming all other students in test scores as well as high school and college completion rates, a stereotype has developed, labeling Asians as:

Policies enacted at Indian schools, such as renaming the children, cutting their hair, and forbidding them from speaking in their native language or practicing their own religions were all designed to:

Education scholars argue that there is a hidden curriculum, in that the school curriculums are designed to reflect the cultural hegemony and ensure the class interests of the dominant class.

African American children equating school success with "acting White" and developing an identity in opposition to dominant White culture are the two components of which theory on educational disparity?

Asian students have always been viewed as the "model minority" in the U.S. education system.

Explain the original intent of affirmative action policies in institutions of higher education? How did the Bakke decision and California's Proposition 209 impact the application of these policies?

Describe the cases of Mendez v. Westminster and Brown v. Board of Education. How did each of these cases contribute to the reversal of Plessy v. Ferguson?

In the United States, there is the idea that the standard form of English spoken by middle-class White Americans is an indication of intelligence and eloquence, whereas the forms of English that working class African Americans speak to one another is an indication of ignorance. Pierre Bourdieu would argue that this constitutes:

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between parental socioeconomic status and the achievement gap?

Black students face disproportionate rates of punishment, school suspension, and arrest, linking school inequities to the criminal justice system. This is known as:

Cultural representations of Black men as criminals encourage teachers to be patient with young Black students.

The 2016 Fisher v. The University of Texas Supreme Court decision affirmed the University of Texas's right to take race into account for admissions.

Because of undernourishment, children in Indian Schools often succumbed to diseases such as tuberculosis.