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| higher educational requirements for particular employment positions. this is a formal reason we need education. |
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| credentialism, economic development |
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| Who leads the world in education? |
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| education moves people along different routes that influence how much they earn |
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| Explain the correlation between education and civic and political participation |
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| More education, more likely to participate. To participate in a democracy you have to be educated. |
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1 in 4 americans can name more than 1/5 freedoms guaranteed by 1st amendment
1/4 dont know that earth orbits sun
1/2 americans can name the simpsons
%70.5 graduate HS, %32.4 graduate. %56 earn a degree in 6 years. |
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| Explain correlation between education and health/life expectancy |
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More education more likely to have a healthy lifestyle and live longer b/c better access to health care and info.
More education less likely to smoke; more likely to quit. Less likely to be involved in dangerous work conditions. |
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| Explain connection between marriage and educated people. |
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More educated people are more likely to:
marry than less educated people
marry at a later age
have a happy marriage |
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| Explain educational inequality |
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| children of different social classes attend different types of schools; receive different kind and quality of instruction and curriculum and achieve different educational outcomes. |
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| Explain why segregated neighborhoods are perfect for bad education |
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low property taxes= low financial resources for education
crime and violence are high
single parent households are common
If jobs are available; they're low paying
UNEMPLOYMENT DUE TO NO EMPLOYMENT, NOT LACK OF WANTING TO WORK |
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| Explain the results of educational inequality |
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| gaps in: test scores, GPAS, rates of placement in accelerated programs, dropout rates, college attendance/graduation rates |
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| Difference in % of Females with bachelor's degress between 1950 and 2011 |
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%24 in 1950; %57 in 2011
Cultural changes result in role changes for women
Males complete more education wise than women. |
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| often unstated standards of behavior that teachers and administrators expect from children within the education system. these reflect middle class biases and norms |
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| stock of experience, knowledge, skills, and habits which an individual has that they can use to do productive labor |
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| soft skills (noncognitive traits) |
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| social skills, knowing how to dress, knowing how to converse, being cultured, these all affect job performance |
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| processes that transfer inequality from one generation to the next |
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| gap in educational achievement between any 2 social groups |
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| No Child Left Behind (2001 Federal Law) |
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| Intended to reduce achievement gap between low income/minority children and higher income/white children by holding EDUCATORS accountable. administered annual tests to students in 3rd-8th grade |
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| collection of individuals formed around some kind of social identity or for some specific purpose |
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| behavior that is different or unusual but not necessarily in violation of social norms |
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| behavior that violates the un/written rules of society |
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| to make or declare some action as normal or appropriate |
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| a basic rule of society that helps us know what's appropriate |
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| behavior that is guided by a belief about what's right and proper to do |
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| the united states' effort to reduce the sale and consumption of illegal drugs by increasing police surveillance and punishment of offenders |
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| US Gov's effort to combat terrorism since 9/11 |
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| a theory of deviance that stresses that many kinds of behaviors are deviant solely because they are labeled as such |
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| deviant behavior by governments or government officials |
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| a type of warfare in which an outmanned army hides from its larger opponent and engages in attacks only in situations where it thinks it can gain an advantage |
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| measures undertaken to fight or combat terrorist organization, including military strikes and surveillance of suspected terrorist groups |
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| institutions, norms, and rules thru which societies attempt to shape and control individuals. behavior that violates social rules is punished either formally or informally |
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