Chapter 11 – Schools & Education

Question 1

Until recently, formal schooling was restricted to whom?

Answer 1

Wealthy males

Question 2

Was education in early colonial America formal?

Answer 2

Rarely

Question 3

Why were textbooks written after the Revolutionary War?

Answer 3

Promote unity

Question 4

What demanded reading, writing, and math skills more than an agricultural economy?

Answer 4

Industrialization in the mid-1800s

Question 5

College education was not widespread until when?

Answer 5

Mid-1900s after WWII

Question 6

What % of high school graduates from enroll in college?

Answer 6

65

Question 7

What affects who goes to college, chances of getting good grades in college, and entrance exams, whether family can afford college, chances of dropping out of college?

Answer 7

Social class and race/ethnicity

Question 8

Students from low-income backgrounds tend to have (lower/higher) educational attainment than students from wealthier backgrounds?

Answer 8

lower

Question 9

Most to least - Percentage of high school graduates who attend college immediately after graduation based on social class.

Answer 9

High income, middle income, low income

Question 10

What racial/ethnic group with the highest high school drop-out rate?

Answer 10

Latino

Question 11

Most to least without a high school degree (& not in school rn) - races

Answer 11

Latino, Native American, African American, White, Asian

Question 12

Who has more educational attainment - older women or older men?

Answer 12

Older men

Question 13

Who has more educational attainment - younger women or younger men?

Answer 13

Younger women

Question 14

How is U.S. education the “best of systems?”

Answer 14

The US has many of the top colleges, universities, and secondary schools in the world, as well as many of the top professors and teachers.

Question 15

What perspective says education helps socialize children and prepare them for their eventual entrance into the larger society as an adult?

Answer 15

Functionalist

Question 16

What perspective says education reinforces inequality in the larger society?

Answer 16

Conflict perspective

Question 17

What perspective focuses on social interaction in the classroom, on school playgrounds, and at other school-related venues?

Answer 17

Symbolic interactionist

Question 18

What contributes to gender-role socialization, and teachers’ expectations may affect student performance?

Answer 18

Social interaction

Question 19

How do schools in urban areas compare to schools in suburban areas?

Answer 19

They differ greatly in the extent of their funding, in the quality of their physical facilities, and in other respects.

Question 20

Has school violence increased, decreased, or stayed the same since the 1990s?

Answer 20

Decreased

Question 21

What students now occupy a greater % of enrollment at the most selective institutions than in the past?

Answer 21

The richest

Question 22

What students now occupy a greater % of the enrollment at the least selective 4-year institutions and at community colleges?

Answer 22

The poorest

Question 23

What makes it easier for certain wealthy students to gain admission?

Answer 23

Legacy admissions

Question 24

What term refers to when students who are daughters or sons (or other relatives) of graduates of the institution are given preference in admissions?

Answer 24

Legacy admissions

Question 25

What increases chances of admission by 45%?

Answer 25

Legacy admissions

Question 26

What gives an unfair advantage to the already advantaged and uses up valuable spots that should go to more qualified students?

Answer 26

Legacy admissions

Question 27

How is U.S. education the “worst of systems?”

Answer 27

When we compare educational attainment, the US lags behind in graduation rate, average in reading & science, below average in math