Experiences with trips to places such as museums, concerts, and plays
What is cultural capital?
100
Separating kids by their abilities and interests
What is the sorting machine?
100
Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math
What is STEM?
100
Abilities such as, motivation, self discipline, stability, dependability, perseverance, self-esteem, optimism, and future orientation.
What are non-cognitive abilies?
200
The rapper that was given as an example for a childhood with limited social capital
What is Eminem?
200
Investment in education will improve the quality of workers and, consequently, increase the wealth of the community.
What is the human capital theory?
200
Workers engaging in continual training to meet the changing technological requirements of the workplace.
What is lifelong learning?
200
The study that followed the lives of 123 African American children from low income families that attended a high quality preschool program.
What is the Perry Preschool study?
300
The type of family that has at least one parent with a supervisory or managerial position in their job?
What is the middle-class?
300
Economic goals
What is the primary influence on public school policies, curricula, and standardized testing?
300
Overeducation of the population that results in more degrees, which are less valuable.
What is education inflation?
300
They were Less likely to commit crimes and become pregnant. They were also more likely to graduate high school and attend college or vocational school.
Those who participated in the Perry preschool were more and less likely to what?
400
When working-class families do not intervene much in their children's lives
What is the accomplishment of natural growth?
400
Programs that help eliminate poverty or help prepare poor children for school?
What is Head Start (or Sesame Street)?
400
The group that makes up a large percentage of California's STEM workforce
What are educated immigrant workers?
400
Reduces the cost of public special education, the criminal justice system, unemployment and losses to crime victims.
What are the effects of spending more on preschool education?
500
The children enter school with different backgrounds at home. Children of middle-class families typically enter school better prepared, and therefore have an advantage.
What is unequal opportunities for the children in school?
500
The “Father of American Schools”?
Who is Horace Mann?
500
The measurement of education in terms of human capital in education.
What is economic growth?
500
He believed that investing in preschool education brings higher economic growth.
What did James J Heckman believe brought higher economic growth?