Exam 20: Education

Why, in your opinion, is there a teacher shortage in the United States? Do you think the pay for teachers is adequate? Do you think teachers, on average, are sufficiently trained and motivated? Why do you think we commonly pay teachers so little for what seems to be the very important work of training our daughters and sons?

As income goes up among U.S. families, we find that:

To improve U.S. schooling, A Nation at Risk recommended:

Which of the following is a latent function of schooling?

Dropping out of school greatly reduces a person's chance to earn a good income.

Education is the social institution by which society provides people with important knowledge, including:

In Japan, a larger share of students graduate from high school than in the United States.

In the United States today, about what percentage of the adult population has a high school diploma?

An example of the cultural capital advantage of well-to-do students in U.S. schooling is parents who:

Which of the following statements applies the symbolic-interaction approach to schooling?

Public schools have been losing teachers in recent years because of:

Currently, there is a surplus of teachers in the United States.

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

Assume that you support the school choice movement. What are you likely to say is the reason that U.S. public schools perform poorly?

Which of the following concepts refers to the practice of including people with disabilities in regular educational classes and programs?

One result of tracking in schools is that:

Comparing the rates at which children learned in school and in their home environments, researchers have found that the main cause of the achievement gap between rich and poor children is:

Wealthy British families send their children to "public schools" that are the same as private boarding schools in the United States.

In the United States, schooling is an important path to upward social mobility.

Explain the importance of community colleges to higher education in the United States. What special contributions do community colleges make? Provide facts in support of your assertions.