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Week 10: Social Welfare: Education Flashcards

1
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What is viewed as the best way of tackling social advantage?

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education

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why is education considered the best way to tackle social disadvantage?

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  • access to better jobs
  • increase job competitiveness
  • better manage one’s life, health ,finances
  • good for the nation
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3
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correlation of education and inequality?

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  • education scores are higher in more equal rich countries
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how do australian students perform academically in comparison to global peers?

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  • performance declining relative to global peers
  • aus rank 20th in math (down from 6th in 2000)
  • 12th in reading (4th 2000)
  • 10th science (8th 2000)
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5
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example of education inequality growing

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  • gap between top performing and bottom performing students has grown
  • inequality widens as children move through their school years
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6
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how does socioeconomic status affect results

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  • once socioeconomic background is accounted for, there is essentially no difference in performance between public and non-gov schools
  • the considerable inequality within different sectors is caused by socioeconomic status
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compare reading scores between low SES and high SES schools

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  • low SES produce scores about 2 years behind average scores from high SES schools
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comments on australias performance on immigrant status

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  • outstanding
  • aus is 2nd highest in sample group, and migrant status barely affects risk of underachievement
  • aus immigrants are more skilled than existing population
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examples of poverty and education disadvantage

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  • no books
  • going to school without food
  • no school excursions
  • teased for 2nd hand clothes
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10
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what is smith family’s learning for life program

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  • sponsors 33000+ disadvantaged children
  • link children to literacy support, tutoring
  • financial scholarships
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what determines underachieving at school

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  • socio economic status
  • proficiency in standard aus english
  • whether you are ATSI
  • disability
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objectives of aus education

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  • quality universal education
  • quality early childhood support
  • supporting educational attachment
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13
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who is responsible for the delivery of education (primary, secondary, tertiary)

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states

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14
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how is education funded through a mixed economy

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home schooling

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15
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what did gonski 1 recommend for school funding

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  • focusing funding attention on individuals
  • put programs in place to improve educational outcomes of those individuals
  • measure individual progress as result of interventions
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16
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what would it mean for the cwealth to fully fund gonski

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  • increase funds to schools

- direct funds to schools based on relative need - aim to address growing gaps in educational outcomes

17
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what are some of labor’s policy proposals

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  • full fund gonski
  • strengthen teacher quality
  • individual attention to meet child needs (disability)
  • increase grade 12 completion
  • see gonski 2 as decrease in funding
18
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who funds public/ government schools?

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  • largely state

- some federal (commonwealth funding)

19
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who funds private schools

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  • catholic (from 60s)
  • independent (anglican, other christian) (high fee independent)

funding: primarily funded by federal (commonwealth)
- government funding constitutes 75% average current running costs

20
Q

majority of students attend?

A

gov schools

21
Q

shift towards private school in?

A

secondary school

22
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government schools have _____ disadvantage and _____ advantage?

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  • higher

- lower

23
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what are the schooling policy issues

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  1. funding and equity
  2. school choice
  3. vocational education
24
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why is education considered a two-tiered system?

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  • false dichotomy? (private is not all elite)
  • private school governance by state?
  • elite –> jumping ahead
  • good teaching
  • dynamics: services to poor will be poor services
25
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role of gov in unequal choice of education

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  • should govs support people to get advantages?
  • to access ‘elite’ schools
  • boost inequality
26
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what is the main critiques of educational choice

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  • who gets/ has the right to choose?
  • choice in public system? outside cities?
  • choice of equal schooling or choice to get ahead or ‘status goods’ ‘elitism’

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