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CHAPTER 14 – EducationFill in the BlankSelect the missing terms from each section and place them in the correct blank space.Section 1Benefits Business CohesionCommunication Credentialism CulturalDecreases Dysfunctions Economic Education Formal GatekeepingHidden Inflation IntegrationKnowledge Legacies SchoolingSocial Social class Social networksSocialization agencies Transmits______ is a social institution that transmits attitudes, knowledge, beliefs, values, norms, and skills to itsmembers through formal, systematic training. ______, a narrower term, is formal training and instruction provided in a classroom setting. Functionalists emphasize the benefits of education. Schools are ______ that teach children how to get along with others and prepare them for adult economic roles.Education ______ knowledge and culture, which increases cultural ______ (the social bonds that people have with each other and with the community at large) and societal ______ because education instills national values. Education ______ job competition; the more time that young adults spend in school, the longer the jobsof older workers they might replace are safe. Educational institutions create ______ and are good for ______. However, higher educational attainment doesn’t cause better ______ skills. Instead, verbal ability reflects other variables such as ______. Also, the educational system has ______; schools aren’t preparing young adults for the work force as well as they could.While functionalists emphasize the advantages of education, conflict theorists ask why education ______ some people more than others. One of the best predictors of educational attainment is social class. Wealthy parents have the greatest amount of ______ capital (such as income and other monetary assets),______ capital (such as an elite education and positive attitudes toward education), and ______ capital (such as social networks that provide support and information about schooling). ______ refers to controlling the access to education or jobs of people from lower socioeconomic levels. Every school has a ______ curriculum that includes reading, writing, and learning other skills. Schools also have a ______ curriculum, practices that transmit nonacademic knowledge, values, attitudes, norms, and beliefs.Education relies on ______, certificates or degrees to show that people have certain skills, educational attainment levels, or job qualifications. Besides conferring social status, credentials connote ______ or expertise in an area. Credential ______ occurs when employers demand credentials that aren’t necessary to the job. The proportion of financially needy undergraduates at the nation’s wealthiest colleges and universities dropped between 2004 and 2007, partly due to ______, the children of alumni who have “reserved seats” regardless of their accomplishments or ability.CHAPTER 14 – EducationFill in the BlankSelect the missing terms from each section and place them in the correct blank space.Section 2College Doubt Educational gapGrades Labeling Leadership Less Math MenMerit Process ReadingRole models Self-fulfilling prophecy SimilarStudent clubs Studying TrackingUnderrepresentedFeminists analyze educational differences between men and women. Overall, girls and boys from similar socioeconomic backgrounds have ______ scores. Because males have higher scores than females in SAT reading and mathematics scores, it’s not clear why some policy analysts are worried about boys’ ______ scores (but not women’s lower ______ scores) in high school. Across all racial-ethnic groups, women have slightly higher college graduation rates than do men. More ______ are earning college degrees today than at any time in history. The largest ______ is between men in low, middle, and high-income families. Overall, women have higher educational attainment rates because—in both high school and college—they earn better ______,spend more time ______, hold more ______ posts, and are more involved than men in ______ and community volunteer work. Women are ______ in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In college, female students are ______ satisfied than men with the core courses, are more likely to ______their abilities in a male-dominated discipline, have few female faculty ______ and mentors, and expect that they will not be paid or promoted equally with men. For symbolic interactionists, education is an active ______ in which students, teachers, peers, and parents participate. An education system is based on ______ tends to sort students by aptitude. Such sorting results in ______ (also called streaming or ability grouping), assigning students to specific educational programs and classes on the basis of test scores, previous grades, or perceived ability. Tracking often leads to ______, which can result in a ______ whereby students live up or down to teachers’expectations and evaluations that are affected by background, gender, skin color, hygiene, accent, and test scores. Labeling and stereotypes can also affect a student’s progress in ______.CHAPTER 14 – EducationFill in the BlankSelect the missing terms from each section and place them in the correct blank space.Section 3Accountable Are not Charter schoolsCheating Men Costs DivertsGrade inflation Home schooling LongerLow-achieving Magnet school Major or certificationOptions Outperform PreparedPrincipals Relax Subject matterTest VouchersChildren in many other countries ______ U.S. students in science and math. Despite President George W. Bush’s unfunded No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, American students ______ performing any better in reading and math than they did in the early 1970s. Some higher performing countries have ______ school days than in the U.S., but, not all Americans embrace the idea of longer school days because they believe that kids need some time to ______ and play and taxpayers and administrators worry about the additional ______. Yet, college faculty feel students are not ______ for college. Compared with teachers in Europe and elsewhere, many American high school and elementary teachers do not have a ______ in the subject they teach. Public school teachers in the United States have had lesscontrol over their ______ than ever before. The No Child Left Behind legislation has been praised for making schools more ______, focusing attention on ______ students, and giving ______


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