Transcript 20Education

Education
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© Robert J. Atkins, Ph.D.
© Robert J. Atkins, Ph.D.
How does your family income
effect your attending college?
 As family income increases, the share of
children going to college goes up.
 SAT scores
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Is it worth going to college?
 A high school diploma and a college degree
both raise personal income.
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Japan vs America
 Japan
Entrance based on personal ability
demonstrated on achievement
tests
 America
Practical and job related
Everyone can attend
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Do you remember?
 Are families with higher income more
apt to have children go to college?
 As education increases, what happens
to income?
 What is the difference between the
American and Japanese educational
systems?
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What are the manifest functions
of education?
 Socializing of young
 Creating new culture
 Integrating people into a new
society
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What are the latent functions of
education?
Child care
Consumes time & energy
Lasting relationships
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What are some problems
within education?
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Functional illiteracy
Educational tracking
Bureaucracy
Teacher shortage
What is functional illiteracy?
People leave school without
learning basic skills
 Urgent problem
 Greater than 5 other countries
 40 M adults=8th grade
language skills
What are the problems
with educational tracking?
(Conflict perspective)
 Best schooling goes to
students who are more
privileged to begin with.
Segregates students
into different worlds
What problems are increased by
bureaucracy?
 Imposes uniformity and ignores
cultural variations
 Numerical performance and test
scores = success
 All students are expected to
progress at the same rate
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The teacher shortage
problem
Do you remember?
 What are manifest and latent
functions of education?
 What are some problems within
education?
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Solutions
“School choice”
model
Magnet schools
A Nation at Risk
Community
colleges
What is the “school choice”
model?
Assumes U.S. public schools
perform poorly because they
have no competition
Designed to increase
competition
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What are “magnet schools”?
 Encourages students to specialize
in specific areas of study
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A Nation at Risk
Requires more Math, English,
Social Studies, Science, and
Computer science
Improve teacher training
Improve teachers’ salaries
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Community colleges
Enroll almost 40% of college
students
Greatly expand the
opportunity to attend college
Enroll ½ of African American
and Hispanic undergraduates
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Do you remember?
 What are four of the suggested
solutions to educational problems?
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