Exam 7: Education

In what way might Margaret Mead's classic ethnographic study,Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization,illustrate the whiteness in education?

In many U.S.classroom settings,students of color are often dubbed the "experts" on race through what practice?

Compare the findings of Annettte Lareau and the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd Risley.What are the common findings? How would you suggest a local elementary school communicate research-based suggestions to teachers and parents?

A stark critic of Booker T.Washington's "compromise," W.E.B.Du Bois argued that Washington perpetuated what by not opposing white supremacy?

While books that are often held up as classics in the U.S.educational system-such as Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn-are widely regarded as being universally applicable,writing by marginalized groups-such as Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings-is often considered:

The Chapter 7 section "Whiteness on College Campuses" focuses on students,curricula,and pedagogy.Where else do you see whiteness as pervasive on campus and what proposal might you make to your administration to counteract it?

Which institution is most likely to rely on affirmative action admission policies?

Which of the following best describes how colleges and universities do affirmative action?

Annette Laureau,author of Unequal Childhoods,argues that class differences in parenting are:

What is one way that progressive intellectual movements,such as feminism,are dominated by a white framework?

What usually happens to the very small number of qualified white and Asian applicants who are denied admission to a particular university due to affirmative action policies?

Which of the following is most likely to work as a form of "cultural capital"?

Some critics of multicultural education argue that it "lowers the bar." The textbook authors explain that not only does intercultural training make better students but that diverse learning environments are also important from participation in the workforce and in a racially diverse democracy.Describe a scenario that illustrates how intercultural education benefits workers and citizens.

Research shows that students of color are about 10 percent more likely to experience what in college classrooms compared to their white peers?

We often think of social capital as inherently good.The more social capital one has,surely more opportunities will follow.Describe how Alejandro Portes's research on familism complicates this view and the implications of this on increasing diversity in higher education.

A group of students argue with their professor that their assigned history text is inadequate because it ignores the influence of slave revolts in achieving emancipation.According to Prudence Carter,how should we understand their behavior?

In which year was the first American-Indian-controlled school established on the Navajo reservation?

Child psychologists Hart and Risley examined speech patterns across families of different social class backgrounds.Which of the following best describes their findings?

Which best describes the relationship between the educational policies applied to African Americans and American Indians during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Prudence Carter and John Ogbu were both concerned with the question of whether black students' academic achievement is negatively impacted by a cultural practice of avoiding "acting white." How does their work differ?