Issues in Education
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- Cultural capitol
- for success in school; kids need certain forms of this in order to succeed (values, belief, attitudes, culture, language skills); wealthier children have more of the right kind than poorer ones
- 5,000
- Over ______ teacher a month assaulted in USA
- Class reproduction
- school mirrors and reinforces class divisions
- 56
- __% Functional illiterate Hispanic students
- Credentalism
- process of social and educational selection in which class advantage and social status are "linked" to the possession of academic "qualification"
- Keeps most youth out of the job market, "matchmaker", Creator and promoter of social networks
- 3 latent functions of education
- Low academic demands
- Educational dysfunctional function
- Lack of interest, Personal issues, Family issues, Grades, Substance abuse
- Most common reasons for dropping out (in order)
- Socialization, Culture transmission, Social control, Social placement (stratification), Change and innovation
- 5 manifest functions of Education
- TBE
- Not until 1968, did Congress mandate that schools provide some sort of transitional bilingual instruction
- Labeling
- testing as resulted in the "label" of students
- 90
- __% of student are in public schools
- 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
- 9
- __% are in low-tuition private schools (ex. Catholic)
- self-fulfilling prophecy
- an unsubstantiated belief or prediction that results in behavior that makes the original false belief come true
- The Achievement Gap
- Differentiation between white and minority student academic achievement increases with every year of school
- Functional Illiterate
- inability to read and write at the skill level necessary for carrying out quality everyday tasks
- Hidden curriculum
- the transmission of certain cultural values and attitudes, like obedience to authority figures, through implied demands found in rules, routines, and regulations
- 16
- __% Functional illiterate white
- 44
- __% Functional illiterate AF/AM
- Social Promotion
- promoting a student to the next grade even though they have not passed the academic standards
- 1
- __% are in high-tuition private schools