Question 1

People over the age of twenty-five now account for about what percentage of all people in degree granting programs?

Accepted Answer

A) 5 percent 
B) 20 percent 
C) 40 percent 
D) 60 percent 
A) 5 percent 
B) 20 percent 
C) 40 percent 
D) 60 percent

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Theodore Sizer identified five consequen

Question 3

Why does the home environment have more effect on academic performance than the school environment?

Accepted Answer

The home environment has a greater effec

Question 4

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.

Accepted Answer

The school choice movement is a push for

Question 5

Social-conflict theory supports the policy of tracking to give all students instruction geared to their abilities.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

On average, completing a college degree adds only about $50,000 to a person's lifetime earnings.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

What percentage of U.S.adults are high school graduates? College graduates? How have these percentages changed over the last century?

Accepted Answer

As of 2020, approximately 90% of U.S. ad

Question 8

What is your view of an ideal educational system in the United States? Describe how schooling would operate in your ideal case.Who would have access to college education? Would intellectual ability or ability to pay matter in the admissions process? Explain your vision.

Accepted Answer

In my view, an ideal educational system

Question 9

What are several reasons that community colleges are important to higher education in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Community colleges are important to high

Question 10

Getting into college in Japan, compared to the United States, is more a matter of

Accepted Answer

A) athletic ability. 
B) performance on achievement tests. 
C) family ties. 
D) being rich. 
A) athletic ability. 
B) performance on achievement tests. 
C) family ties. 
D) being rich.

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

If school officials consider some children to be gifted, teachers may treat them accordingly and create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

In the world today, the vast majority of young people reach secondary school.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Write an essay in which you demonstrate that schooling

Accepted Answer

Schooling is an essential component of a

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

A) Schools have no competition. 
B) Some schools lack adequate funding. 
C) The nation has a high poverty rate. 
D) Too many parents are not involved in the schools. 
A) Schools have no competition. 
B) Some schools lack adequate funding. 
C) The nation has a high poverty rate. 
D) Too many parents are not involved in the schools.

Question 16

Magnet schools encourage

Accepted Answer

A) students to specialize in specific areas of study. 
B) school busing for cultural diversity. 
C) students to take control of their own learning. 
D) students to complete their education in fewer years. 
A) students to specialize in specific areas of study. 
B) school busing for cultural diversity. 
C) students to take control of their own learning. 
D) students to complete their education in fewer years.

Question 17

Which of the following is a latent function of schooling?

Accepted Answer

A) ensuring some common culture 
B) teaching about the U.S.way of life 
C) providing child-care 
D) teaching job skills 
A) ensuring some common culture 
B) teaching about the U.S.way of life 
C) providing child-care 
D) teaching job skills

Question 18

Research suggests that the level of functional illiteracy in the United States may be about what share of adults?

Accepted Answer

A) about 14 percent 
B) about 34 percent 
C) about 54 percent 
D) about 74 percent 
A) about 14 percent 
B) about 34 percent 
C) about 54 percent 
D) about 74 percent

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A) job skills. 
B) basic facts and information. 
C) cultural norms and values. 
D) All of these are correct. 
A) job skills. 
B) basic facts and information. 
C) cultural norms and values. 
D) All of these are correct.

Question 20

Regardless of the level of a school's funding, some students benefit from more "cultural capital" than others.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 20: Education

People over the age of twenty-five now account for about what percentage of all people in degree granting programs?

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

Why does the home environment have more effect on academic performance than the school environment?

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.

Social-conflict theory supports the policy of tracking to give all students instruction geared to their abilities.

On average, completing a college degree adds only about $50,000 to a person's lifetime earnings.

What percentage of U.S.adults are high school graduates? College graduates? How have these percentages changed over the last century?

What is your view of an ideal educational system in the United States? Describe how schooling would operate in your ideal case.Who would have access to college education? Would intellectual ability or ability to pay matter in the admissions process? Explain your vision.

What are several reasons that community colleges are important to higher education in the United States?

Getting into college in Japan, compared to the United States, is more a matter of

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

If school officials consider some children to be gifted, teachers may treat them accordingly and create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In the world today, the vast majority of young people reach secondary school.

Write an essay in which you demonstrate that schooling

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

Magnet schools encourage

Which of the following is a latent function of schooling?

Research suggests that the level of functional illiteracy in the United States may be about what share of adults?

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

Regardless of the level of a school's funding, some students benefit from more "cultural capital" than others.

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