Chapter 13

Question 1

Two main functions of schools

Answer 1

EDUCATE and SOCIALIZE

Question 2

Schools teach… (2 things)

Answer 2

General Skills: writing, reading, math

Specific Skills: anything needed for the workplace

Question 3

Human Capital

Answer 3

the knowledge and skills that make someone more productive and bankable

Question 4

Hidden Curriculum

Answer 4

values, beliefs, and attitudes transmitted by schools
serves to form a more cohesive society but have been used to impose the values of a dominant culture on outsiders or minorities

Question 5

Sorting Machines

Answer 5

Schools place students into programs and groups according to their skills, interests, and talents

Question 6

1966 Coleman Report

Answer 6

showed that two main factors (Family background and Peers) explained differences in achievement among schools… rather than school resources

Question 7

What impact do smaller classes have on students?

Answer 7

Positive impact on student performance

Question 8

Tracking

Answer 8

a way of dividing students into different classes according to ability or future plans, is intended to tailor a students educational experience more directly to his or her particular goals

Question 9

What kind of effects does tracking have??

Answer 9

Negative effects

Question 10

Functionalists

Answer 10

argues that the rise in education rates in the US over the past 100 years is a response to the demands of the marketplace

Question 11

Conflict Theorists

Answer 11

class that the educational boom in the Us is due to the expansion of the educational system and the general view held by Americans that education is a mark of the elite status

Question 12

Credentialism

Answer 12

is an overemphasis on credentials such as college degrees, for signaling social status or job qualifications.. The more people that meet the qualifications of a job the more the employers upgrade the requirements to weed out more ppl

Question 13

Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)

Answer 13

has been shown to accurately predict a students potential for college success, critics argue that there are other equally good predictors that dont have the downsides

Question 14

Affirmative Action

Answer 14

refers to a set of policies that grant preferential treatment to a number of particular subgroups within the population, has come under attack as constituting preferential treatment and taking opportunities away from more deserving students/candidates

Question 15

Socioeconomic class, race, and ethnicity

Answer 15

intertwined and clearly affect educational outcomes

Question 16

Cultural capital

Answer 16

higher parent involvement, more informal educational opportunities outside of school, and more confidence in dealing with school bureaucracies

Question 17

What can much of the black-white achievement gap be attributed to??

Answer 17

CLASS