Quizlet Issues in Education

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  1. 1: % are in high-tuition private schools
  2. 16: % of illiterate White
  3. 1968: Not until ____ did Congress mandate that schools provide some sort of transitional bilingual instruction
  4. 44: % of illiterate African Americans
  5. 5000: over _____ teachers are assaulted a month in US
  6. 56: % of illiterate Hispanic students
  7. 9: % are in low-tuition private schools (ex. Catholic)
  8. 90: % of students are in public schools
  9. Bosnia: divided along ethnic lines; different curriculum, language, history, etc., very decentralized
  10. Class reproduction: school mirrors and reinforces class divisions (conflict)
  11. Conflict: School perpetuates class, gender and racial inequalities, as some groups seek to maintain their privileged positions at others expense
  12. Credentialism: process of social and educational selection in which class advantage and social status are “linked” to the possession of academic “qualification” (conflict)
  13. Cultural capital: for success in school, kids need certain forms of this in order to succeed (values, beliefs, attitudes, culture, language skills); wealthier children have more of the right kind than poorer ones (conflict)
  14. cultural transmission: It imparts values, beliefs and knowledge considered essential to the social reproduction of individuals and entire cultures
  15. Functional illiteracy: inability to read and write at the skill level necessary for carrying out quality everyday tasks
  16. Functionalist: Education is a key component of society
  17. functionalist: 5 manifest and 3 latent functions of education
  18. Functionalist, Conflict, symbolic interaction: Sociological Perspectives on Education
  19. general equivalent diploma: GED
  20. hard work, ability: reason for girls success, reason for boys success
  21. Hidden curriculum: the transmission of certain cultural values and attitudes, like obedience to authority figures, through implied demands found in rules, routines, and regulations (conflict)
  22. Hispanic/Latino: Highest dropout rate among ________ students
  23. Japan: unified, centralized, conformity, obedience, nationalism, high stress/success environment, very little gender equality
  24. Labeling: testing as resulted in the “labeling” of students; a self-fulfilling prophecy can result (“I only scored a such and such on this test, so I must be dumb”); the opposite can be true as well
  25. lack of ability, lack of effort: reason for girls/boys failure failure
  26. lack of interest, personal/family issues, grades, substance abuse: Most common reasons for dropping out
  27. literate: societies with formal education
  28. Low academic demands: Educational dysfunction (functionalist)
  29. preliterate: societies with informal education
  30. self-fulfilling prophecy: an unsubstantiated belief or prediction that results in behavior that makes the original false belied come true
  31. Social promotion: promoting a student to the next grade even though they have not passed the academic standards
  32. socialization, culture transmission, social control, social placement, change and innovation: 5 manifest functions in Functionalist perspective
  33. Symbolic Interaction: Labeling and the self-fulfilling prophecy
  34. The Achievement Gap: Differentiation between white and minority student academic achievement increases with every year of school
  35. Tracking: assigning students at early ages into courses or programs based on test scores, academic “ability”, or behavior; this has a great impact on student academic achievement and career choice (conflict)
  36. transitional bilingual instruction: TBE
  37. US: varies greatly from region, state, city, and neighborhood