Exam 16: Education

Julia is Hispanic and her family is poor.When a local reporter came to visit her school,she was appalled at the learning conditions and ended up reading the sociological research which shows that poor children are __________ the children of the affluent to attend schools with poor resources.

Schools in the United States today are no longer segregated by social class or race.

A powerful negative social label that affects a person's social identity and self-concept is a __________.

Poor students and their schools __________.

Discuss how the financing of public education reflects the economic divide that exists in society.

__________ are/is recommended to increase equality in education.

When schools determine learning groups based on the results of an assessment of some kind it is known as __________ and is highly controversial.

__________ have been shown to be capable of eliminating the learning gap between middle-class and lower-class children at a very young age.

Manny is disillusioned.He originally got into education to help students learn but he finds that he spends much of his time focusing on order and control.He is beginning to think that __________.

In what ways are college opportunities affected by stratification? What would be the advantage of offering a free higher education to all who qualify? Ideal

The longer children live in poverty,the __________ they perform on working-memory tests.

No Child Left Behind requires states to establish standards in __________.

Discuss the pros and cons of "tracking." Would you want to be in an education system with a lot of tracking? What do we gain and lose with such a system? Ideal

Bill is in favor of a strong,centralized national curriculum and educational standards.As such he would likely be __________ No Child Left Behind.

There are approximately __________ schools in the United States.

About 15 percent of low-income students enroll in college,while nearly 65 percent of high-income students enroll in college.This illustrates that __________.

In the past,the school year was developed around the __________ calendar.

Schools today tend to be __________.

The fact that the average SAT score for high income youths was 381 points higher than for low income youths illustrates that __________.

How do schools encourage conformity?