Education

________ can certainly be material resources but also include symbolic elements such as taste, manners, skills, and credentials that a person earns.

Cultural capital

A study released in May 2011 showed that, among men and women who graduated from college between 2006 and 2010, men out-earned women by an average of more than ________ each year.

$5,000

The primary controversy over the ________, from the standpoint of teachers, parents and students, and even administrators, is not so much the standards themselves, but the assessment process and the high stakes involved.

Common Core

________ believe that students from lower and working class families face varying social problems that prevent them from achieving similar levels as students of higher social classes. Many students from working-class families have to contend with helping out at home, contributing financially to the family, poor study environments and a lack of support from their families, and that this system is more easily understood and completed by students of higher social classes.

Conflict theorists

________ in its broadest, most general sense is a means through which the aims and habits of a group of people is passed from one generation to the next.

Education

Sociologists and teachers alike have contended that the impact of ________ is far more negative than positive, arguing that a "one size fits all" concept cannot apply to education.

No Child Left Behind

________ requires states to test students in designated grades. The results of those tests determine eligibility to receive federal funding. Schools that do not meet the standards set, run the risk of having their funding cut.

No Child Left Behind

________ was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court which allowed racial segregation in schools and introduced the phrase "separate but equal" into the U.S. lexicon.

Plessy v. Ferguson

________ point to how low standardized test scores or poor performance in a particular class often lead to a student who is labeled as a low achiever.

Symbolic interaction theorists

________ was responsible for both busing programs to schools outside their neighborhoods and academic preschools geared toward remediation of deficits associated with low socioeconomic status.

The Coleman Report

Education is ________ through which a society's children are taught basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms.

a social institution

Finland is consistently in the top five educational rankings in the world. Differences between their system and ours includes ________ in Finnish schools than in schools in the United States.

about 300 fewer hours in school and more recess

Analysts have determined that the nations and city-states ________ had several things in common, such as well-established standards for education with clear goals for all students, and teachers recruited from the top 5 to 10 percent of university graduates each year, which is not the case for most countries.

at the top of the educational rankings

In its narrowest, most technical sense, ________ is the formal process, or instruction in schools, by which society deliberately passes accumulated knowledge, skills, customs, and values from one generation to the next. Generally, this process results from any experience that affects the way in which one thinks, feels, or acts.

education

Plessy v. Ferguson was a court case decided by the US Supreme Court

in 1896.

Today, in the United States, there is a residual mark of ________ in the nation's education system.

inequality

Our earliest learning experiences generally happen via parents, relatives, and others in our community. Through ________ education, we learn how to dress for different occasions, how to perform regular life routines like shopping for and preparing food, and how to keep our bodies clean.

informal

Despite the cost of college today, it is more ________ than ever before to complete a college degree.

necessary

In the United States, there is a ________ between what male and female college graduates earn.

post-education gender disparity

Educators may believe that students do better when ________ students into these groups because they are with students of similar ability and may have access to more individual attention from teachers, conflict theorists feel that this process leads to self-fulfilling prophecies in which students live up (or down) to teacher and societal expectations.

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