Sociology - Social Institutions - Education
Schooling serves a number of important functions for society.
- The transmission of knowledge - Learning to follow society's rules and to respect authority - Being socialized to develop other qualities that will eventually make people efficient and obedient workers.
Savage Inequalities (by Kozeol) contends what?
Because schools are funded by local property taxes, children in poor neighborhoods are trapped in poor schools, which reinforces inequality.
Many believe that America's educational system is in crisis, but have little agreement in what?
How to fix the problem.
Early college high schools
Institutions that blend high school and college into a coherent educational program in which students earn both a high school diploma and two years of college credit toward a bachelor's degree
The hidden curriculum
It describes the values and behaviors that students learn indirectly over the course of their schooling because of the educational system's structure and teaching methods.
Distance learning
It includes any educational course or program in which the teacher and students do not meet together in the classroom, a situation increasingly available over the internet.
Education
It is the process by which a society transmits knowledge, values, and expectations to its members so they can function in society.
Charter schools
Public schools run by private entities to give parents greater control over their children's education.
What forms of schooling emerged to solve the educational crisis?
Some attempts have included early college high schools, homeschooling, school vouchers, and charter schools.
Homeschooling
The education of children by their parents, at home.
The Pygmalion Effect
The idea that teachers' attitude about their students unintentionally influence their academic performance.
Educational institutions helps reproduce "what" in society.
The inequality
School vouchers
They are payments from the government to parents whose children attend failing public schools to help parents pay for private school tuition