Education Flashcards
Credentialism:
The emphasis on certificates or degrees to show that a person has a certain skill, has attained a certain level of education, or has met certain job qualifications.
Cultural Capital:
Cultural knowledge that metaphorically serves as currency to help one navigate a culture.
Cultural Transmission:
The way people come to learn the values, beliefs, and social norms of their culture.
Education:
A social institution through which a society’s children are taught basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms.
Formal Education:
The learning of academic facts and concepts.
Grade Inflation:
The idea that the achievement level associated with an A today is notably lower than the achievement level associated with an A a few decades ago.
Head Start Program:
A federal program that provides academically focused preschool to students of low socioeconomic status.
Hidden Curriculum:
The type of nonacademic knowledge that people learn through informal learning and cultural transmission.
Informal Education:
Education that involves learning about cultural values, norms, and expected behaviors through participation in society.
No Child Left Behind Act:
Requires states to test students in prescribed grades, with the results of those tests determining eligibility to receive federal funding.
Social Placement:
The use of education to improve one’s social standing.
Sorting:
Classifying students based on academic merit or potential.
Tracking:
A formularized sorting system that places students on tracks that perpetuate inequalities.
Universal Access:
The equal ability of all people to participate in an education system.
