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Education refers to...
the systematic, formal process through which specialized teachers transmit skills, knowledge, and values to students
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An example of education in the USA is...
the formal education in elementary schools, secondary schools, high schools, colleges, and universities
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Educational Attainment refers to...
the years of school a person has completed
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Examples of educational attainment would be...
8th grade, high school diploma, associate degree, bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, or doctorate degree
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Educational Achievement refers to...
that which a student has learned such as reading, writing, and mathematics
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An example of educational achievement would be...
the manifest function of the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) is to measure achievement in reading, writing, and mathematics
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Social Reproduction refers to...
passing social and economic inequalities on from one generation to the next and thus perpetuating the existing stratification system
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An example of social reproduction is when...
- well-to-do parents pass their money and property to their children as well as social and cultural advantages in the form of access to education that will assist their children;
- middle class parents tend to pass more social capital (that is, knowledge and skills) to their children than working class and lower class parents
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Legacy Admission
when prestigious / Ivy League / private colleges allow a child of an alumni student admission into their college with a C average thus perpetuating the family's social status and wealth
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Credentials refers to...
the educational requirements one needs to have to get a particular job
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Credentials also has to do with the...
educational requirements to get many jobs are higher than they need to be to do the job and this has created a credentials race
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An example is that credentials are often used as...
a screening mechanism to deny access to jobs to people
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Degree Inflation refers to...
the outcomes of requiring people to have more and more education to get a particular job
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An example of degree inflation is when...
a person may not need the degree to do the job, the person needs the degree to get the job
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Tracking refers to...
ability grouping by clustering people together into classes or tracks
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An example of tracking would be when...
some people get tracked into college prep courses while others get tracked into vocational educational courses
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High-Stakes Testing refers to...
a particular test which will determine whether a person will get a particular high school diploma, college degree, and the like
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Examples of High-Stakes Testing are...
- the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE);
- the SAT;
- the GRE;
- the state exam for nursing students
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Bilingual Education refers to...
a program that allows students learning a second language to be educated in their first language until they reach a certain level in the second language
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An example of Bilingual Education is...
a 10 year-old student from Japan will be instructed in Japanese until the student reaches a certain level in the second language
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Violence in the Schools refers to...
physical assault in educational settings
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A study by the U.S. Department of Education in 2010 found that (1)__% of all public schools have had at least one episode of crime that was reported to the police.
The same study found that (2)__% of all public schools had at least one serious violent crime incident.
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Examples of violence in schools are when...
- one student commits a physical assault on another student;
- one student engages in bullying against another student and it involves a physical assault
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