Exam 20: Education

Write an essay in which you demonstrate that schooling (or lack of it) around the world is linked to (a) level of economic development and (b) national cultural patterns. Include the United States in your comparative analysis.

Most private schools in the United States are "prep schools" that typically enroll children of well-to-do families.

The major reason that schooling is limited in lower-income nations is that:

Based on the work by Theodore Sizer, what are five consequences of bureaucracy in U.S. schools?

Children in the United States spend only about 13 percent of their waking hours in school.

Rather than creating violence, in most cases violence spills into schools from the surrounding society.

What is taught in schools around the world reflects local cultures.

For the United States as a whole, about what percentage of people between ages sixteen and twenty-four drop out before completing high school?

If you were to enter a school in ancient Greece or China, the students you would find there would be mainly:

Magnet schools encourage:

At what point in our history had a majority of adults in the United States earned a high-school diploma?

In low-income nations, most education is a matter of:

In Great Britain, regardless of their scores on achievement examinations, the children of well-to-do families:

Jonathan Kozol characterizes the differences in funding between rich and poor communities as the "savage inequality" of U.S. education.

The fact that, historically, schooling has been mostly for elites is evident in the fact that the word "school" has the same root as the Greek word for:

Historically, the poorest people in every society have been the most likely to go to school, so that they could learn what they needed to know to earn a living.

A general lesson of sociological research is that:

What is the school choice movement? Why do many people support this initiative? Why do many others oppose it? Present your own views on this debate, providing evidence to support your arguments and conclusions.

Research shows that, in the typical college classroom, most students are active participants who speak up.

Schooling in the United States has always favored theoretical learning over practical learning.