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40 Cards in this Set
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Functionalist Perspective
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To provide a new generation with knowledge and skills (most important), enhancing social mobility, promoting national unity and providing custodial care.
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Enhancing Social Mobility, answer is 'YES', why?
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The knowledge and intellectual skills learned can provide good jobs and pay along with it. Today, college grads earn 91% more than high school grads compared to 32% in 1980.
It also stimulates economic growth. |
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Prestige Occupation
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The more education, the higher the income.
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Promoting National Unity, what does it do?
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Ex: Thanksgiving
Transmitting different cultures into children. |
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Hidden curriculum
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Usually middle class values are instilled in children through school systems.
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Custodial Care
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Providing a place for children and having someone to watch them.
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Why is Custodial Care important?
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It is important for single parent- households and custodial care offers 6/6 programs to supervise children, to keep them off the streets and out of trouble.
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How can students be keep in school w/o becoming restless?
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By having extra-curricular activities, dances, pep-rallies, and more.
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Conflict Perspective vs Functionalist Perspective
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How education may HARM society is Conflict Perspective whereas Functionalist Perspective involves how education benefits society.
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Tracking
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The system of sorting students into different groups according to past academic achievements.
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Cultural Imperialism aka Americanization
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Students becoming Americanized by becoming assimilated into the mainstream of U.S culture. It occurs by using education to unify the children.
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The process of becoming "Americanized" effect minority children?
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It enables minorities to improve their life chances and would enhance the nation's unity.
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Cultural Pluralism
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The recognition that the U.S. is made up of many cultures and each of these cultures has contributed to the economic, political, and social development of the U.S.
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Pygmalion Effect
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It is the expectation that a teacher has on a student's performance. Example is "self-fulfilling prophecy"
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Symbolic Interactionalism
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We act in the way that we believe people want to see us.
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Self Fulfilling Prophecy is..
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A student becomes what they are expected to become.
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SWC Mission is...
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"SWC is committed to meeting the educational goals of it's students in an environment that promotes intellectual growth and develops human potential"
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Democratization, what does it mean with SAT scores?
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SAT scores fell from the 1960's-1980's. It has raised concerns about the quality of American schools and its future.
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Problems in perspective SAT scores..
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Inadequate preparation, dealing with social problems. Overall the U.S stands decent in education but it cannot be compared to other school systems.
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What is the issue with students in schools who are not performing well?
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Social problems, lack of parental guidance and support.
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Compensatory Education
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A school program intended to improve academic performances of socially and educationally disadvantaged children.
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Head Start
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A kind of Compensatory Program that focuses on disadvantaged preschoolers and ran mostly by pediatricians and child psychologists.
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What is the aim of the Compensatory Programs?
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To provide equal education for all students. Not true.
Ex: La Jolla vs San Ysidro |
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Voucher Plan
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An educational system in which the government gives a check to parents that may be used to pay for their child's education at any school of their choice.
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The idea behind the Voucher Plan was...
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need customers, business, schools that attract students will earn $.
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Who opposed Voucher Plan?
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Majority of Teachers and Unions. White flight, busing- leaving the others to suffer and schools to worsen. 1) it would encourage white parents to choose schools on the basis of racial and ethnic prejudice. 2) It would promote racial segregation and 3) It would give gov't funds to private schools. Separation of church and state is violated.
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During the 1990's, who supported the Voucher plan?
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Poor Parents; over-crowding, violence, poor test scores.
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1998-2002 Supreme Court Decisions...
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98- Wisconsin law provided low income students with public $ to attend private schools.
02- government would not get involved. No religion is better than another. All schools are participants of the Voucher Plan Program. |
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Back-to-Basics
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Education movement that proposes a return to the teaching of basic subjects and values. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Patriotism, and Bible Studies. Emphasized drill methods, and avoids drug use, sex ed, and more.
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Merit Pay
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Extra income for superior teachers.
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What are some issues that Merit Pay may create?
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Jealousy amongst teachers, unequal pay for equal work,
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Master Teacher
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A school's best teachers are given extra pay to provide counseling and assistance to other teachers.
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Social Promotion
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Passing students to a higher grade to ensure a positive sel-esteem rather than holding them back because they have not mastered the academics.
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Grade Inflation
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The assignment of higher grades than were formerly given in previous years for the same quality of work.
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Unschooling Approach
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Need parental supervision, open-class approach. "Montessori- to see what the students interests are and let the parents work around their interests" It only works for independent students.
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Classical Learning
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Children taught to read exceptionally great books, memorize important facts, think logically, learn in Latin.
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Why is the Unschooling Approach criticized? Why is it NOT justified?
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For depriving children of the opportunity to interact with their peers. Lacking socialization. Not justified because their are outside school programs for children to participate in.
Ex: Boy/Girl Scouts, School teams, etc. |
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"Lifelong Learners" is a term referring to...
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Adults who are not in school regularly. It is to accomodate students diverse responsibilities and interests and flexible.
Ex: community colleges. |
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Characteristics of Lifelong Learner Programs are..
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Late night classes, weekends, internet courses, fast-track courses and more. All designed for non-Traditional students.
Ex: National University. |
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What is the issues/problems involved with Master-Teacher Program?
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Master-Teachers will eventually leave the classroom for bigger opportunities.
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