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Development of Modern Education
Functionalist/ Conflict Perspective
The Symbolic Interactionist Theory
Problems in U.S. Education and Their Solutions
Education in Global Perspective/ The Future of Education
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A group’s formal system of teaching knowledge, values and skills
What is Education?
100
In education, the sorting of students into different programs on the basis of perceived abilities.
What is Tracking
100
Which Sociologist coined the term "self-fulfilling prophecy
What is Robert Merton
100
Passing students from one grade to the next even though they have not learned basic materials
What is Social Promotion
100
Employers use diplomas and degrees to determine who is eligible for a job.
What is a Credential Society
200
Proposed universal schooling
What is Thomas Jefferson and Noah Webster
200
Another function where  a process by which schools pass on society’s core values from one generation to another.
What is Cultural Transmission of Values
200
The children who had IQ tests jump from 10-15pts were called what
What is Spurters
200
The percentage Harvard curved their number of students to who graduate with honors to reduce "honors inflation"
What is 60%
200
The most, least, and currently industrializing nations
What is Japan, Egypt, and Russia
300
The three classic "Rs" of the 19th century
What is 'Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmatic.
300
Education reproduces the social class structure; that is, through such mechanisms as unequal funding and operating different schools for the elite and for the masses, education perpetuates a society’s basic social inequalities from one generation to the next.
What is Conflict perspective on Education
300
The Rist Research concluded that a student's journey through school was determined by what day in their kindergarten education
What is Eighth day in kindergarten
300
Cheats by faking graduation rates, test scores, and even attendance rates.
What is School Administrators.
300
Some teachers are using online video games to teach classes. One example of a game used for a teaching tool would be the online game __________
What is Second Life