Exam 16: Education

The process also known as ability-grouping students into different groups or classes according to their perceived intellectual ability is called sorting.

A "dumbed-down" curriculum tends to characterize the teaching of students labeled as low ability.

The "voucher system" empowers parents by enabling them to choose a school for their child based on what the parents want.

A strong relationship exists between poverty and test scores in

S. schools reflect, implicitly or explicitly, the assumption that the American way of life is the only really right way.

Between 2006 and 2008, 53 percent of people over the age of 25 had completed high school.

The preoccupation with ________ and ________ in schools is characterized by constraints on personal freedom and is further regimented by the dictates of the clock.

A parent's rationale for sending a child to private school would be

Most U.S. schools are segregated based on such factors as race, social class, and ability.

The tracking system is closely linked to the

Education is the great equalizer in U.S. society, the process by which the disadvantaged get their chance to be upwardly mobile as is evident from the fact that people with the same educational attainment receive the same economic rewards regardless of race and gender.

How does curriculum in the public schools work against the poor and recent immigrants?

The ________ views of the majority (or at least the majority of the school board) may intrude in public education as is evidenced by the fact that a goal of the Christian Coalition is to win control of local school boards.

From the ________ perspective, schools are of crucial importance in maintaining societal integration.

The inability of all college students to attend the college of their choice reflects the stratification system.

The competitive nature of the U.S. schools fosters cooperative work efforts between students.

Rosenthal and Jacobson's study involved an experimental group, called ________, and a control group.

Sorting students by ability is based primarily on the results of ________, which are plagued with their own class biases.

Vouchers

The most important avenue to later success is