A classifying system that structures group access to economic, political, cultural, and social resources.
What is class?
100
Amount of money earned in wages or salaries throughout a year.
What is income?
100
Teachers develop instruction and interactions with their students in order to ensure that students are reaching their fullest potentials.
What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?
100
Men and women earn their maximum income between the ages of 45 and 54. The highest incidence of poverty occurs for individuals under 18 years of age.
What is age inequality?
100
Individuals who do office work.
What is a white collar worker?
200
What is the term for when people are born into an economic class, they often stay there; the political-economic system helps them to remain in the class they were born in.
What is the socioeconomic strata?
200
Term used to refer to the economic condition of a person or group.
What is socioeconomic status?
200
This is the term that refers to when teachers separate students into different groups or classes based on their intellectual abilities as a common educational practice.
What is tracking?
200
African Americans other racial and ethnic backgrounds often have a smaller salary then white's. Amelia's Road is a good example of this type of inequality.
What is racial and ethnic inequality?
200
Majority of people fall within this class, do not identify with an exact class but rather are greatly influenced by their economic circumstances.
What is the middle class?
300
An act passed in 1987, requires public schools to recognize the educational rights and provide protection for homeless children.
What is McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act?
300
Involves a families saving accounts, insurance, corporate stock, ownership and property
What is wealth?
300
Teacher expectations, tracking, curriculum, and funding are areas that influence what.
What are the four areas that influence inequalities in schools?
300
Women earn less and are more likely to suffer from poverty than any other group. Women are more likely then men to fall below the poverty level.
What is gender inequality?
300
Individuals and families who own and control corporations, banks, and other production. Most privileged of the classes
What is the upper class?
400
A term that ranks individuals and families on the basis of their income, education, occupation, wealth, and power in society.
What is social stratification?
400
When the teacher is in total control and the students have no say or discussion about the curriculum.
What is authoritarian?
400
Bringing students cultural backgrounds and experiences into the classroom in order to ensure they have a high self-concept and connection to the curriculum.
What is curriculum for equality?
400
Low-income workers in the U.S. earn less than low-income workers in other industrialized counties. Limited access to resources based on income.
What is economic inequality?
400
Workers who are engaged by manual work that is routine and mechanical.
What is the blue-collar worker?
500
People in poverty have a different value system and lifestyle. They have adapted this lifestyle as a result to living in poverty. What theory is this?
What is the theory of a culture of poverty?
500
Between now and 2018, the fastest growing occupations are in what two fields?
What is health and computing fields?
500
Students in this ability group have limited access to rigorous courses and to rich educational experiences that enhance learning. Oral recitation and written work are common.
What is the low-ability group?
500
This percentage of African American males graduate from high school within 4 years of entering.
What is 50%?
500
Jobs that require manual work but the income varies depending on the skill required for each specific job. Take orders from others, often most effected from recessions.