Exam 13: Education

Riverview College School is a private co-ed boarding school attended by those who can afford the $45,000 annual tuition.Which statement best identifies how this school works as a powerful socializer of dominant class values?

For many years,colleges have been stigmatized and there has been a stereotypical notion that college students were "inferior"' to university students in intelligence,given that the vocational mandates of colleges had placed them in a subordinate position within the higher education system.According to James Knight,president of the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (2011),the biggest area of enrollment growth for colleges is driven by university graduates who are treating colleges as a de facto finishing school in order to get into the workforce.Discuss this emerging trend in postsecondary education.Are we at a point where one needs BOTH a university degree and a college education in order to be employable? Why or why not?

According to the text,schools have made progress on many fronts.What statement reflects a criticism?

The thesis for Vanessa's term paper is that schools are stratified in ways that reflect the hierarchies of the workplace inasmuch as they teach youth punctuality,compliance,and how to internalize the orders and expectations of authority figures.Which theoretical perspective is Vanessa using?

According to the text,what is one way that schools connect to and shape society?

According to the text,what is credential inflation?

Which statement best reflects a structural-functionalist view of school functions?

Which form of educational organization has youths grouped into the same school and exposed to the same curriculum,and has relatively large numbers directed to higher education?

Children of economically disadvantaged households fare just as well in school as children from affluent home environments.

Students had to give presentations on what made their ethnic background special so other students would learn to appreciate the differences between them.What does this functionalist lesson plan encourage?

Compare the nature of moral educational before the late 1960s with what came afterward.What was the main difference in morality?

In a conversation with his mother,Abdul is pleading to be transferred to a different school,arguing that his current school racializes minority students.When asked to explain,what would Abdul say?

Explain how school choice is growing in Canada.

Describe and explain the ideas underlying human capital theory.

Educational systems that are based on sponsored mobility allow for a greater number of youth to access higher educational opportunities.

When Ada attended high school in the 1950s,home economics was a course offered for female students while male students were allowed to take wood shop and auto mechanics.What term describes this course arrangement?

When comparing males and females in education,which statement is most accurate?

Trina,adopting a functionalist perspective,would argue which of the following to be a function of schooling that results in a benefit to society?

What was the main moral shift in education after the late 1960s?

In a comparison of males and females in education,which statement is the most accurate observation?