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Chapter 11
Problems of Education
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Sociological Perspectives on Education
• Functionalist Approaches
• Conflict Approaches– Conflict view has two themes
• Marxian• Non-Marxian
• Interactionist Approaches
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Table 11-1: Perspectives on Education
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Educational Attainment and Achievement
• How U.S. Students Measure Up in International Comparisons
• Greater proportions of American students are finishing high school & college
• The gap of educational attainment between blacks and whites has narrowed
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Educational Attainment and Achievement
• Higher dropout rates among minority students are caused by the fact that they – Do not receive enough help at home
• US lags behind many advanced industrial nations in standardized test scores
• The level of student achievement remains a subject of widespread debate
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Educational Attainment and Achievement
• Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) indicates that – Schoolchildren in Asia perform better
academically than those in the U.S.
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Figure 11-1: Years of SchoolCompleted by Persons Age 25+
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Figure 11-2: Age 18–24; graduated high school or equivalent degrees
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Figure 11-3: 4th-Graders’ Scores on Tests; Rates of Student Poverty: ‘04
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Education and Equality: The Issue of Equal Access
• Black Students
• Hispanic Students– Bilingual/Bicultural Education– Asian Students
• Preschool Programs
• Desegregation
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Education and Equality: The Issue of Equal Access
• American society is based on the premise that everyone has the right to an education– Equality through education
• There’s of criticism that not all students have access to the same quality education– Central-city minority children– Urban and suburban divide
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Figure 11-4: Elementary–Secondary per-Pupil Spending Amounts: ’07-’08
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School Reform: Problems of Institutional Change
• Schools as Bureaucracies
• Classroom and School Size
• School Choice– Charter Schools– Homeschooling
• The Technological Fix
• Teachers’ Unions
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School Reform: Problems of Institutional Change
• School Violence
• Primary source of resistance to change is educational institutions
• Schools have become large bureaucratic organizations – With an existence independent of their
educational goals
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Figure 11-5: A Typical SchoolDistrict’s Educational Bureaucracy
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Figure 11-6: Estimated Impact of Bill to Save Teacher Jobs
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Figure 11-7: Nonfatal Crimes against Students Ages 12–18
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Social Policy
• Race to the Top: The Obama–Duncan Strategy
• Educational Conservatism and Back to Basics– Testing for Educational Excellence, or Drill
and Kill?
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Social Policy
• Humanism and Open Education– Progressivism
• Access to Higher Education– Privatization of Public Higher Education
• Future Prospects
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Figure 11-8: Tuition as a Percentage of Higher Education Revenues, 2004