GOVT 2225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Big Questions, Preschool, James Samuel Coleman
31 Jan 2018
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Difference between white & black high school students experience. To teach a basic and common skillset, impart knowledge, and produce dispositions that are useful in the labor market and life. This is done through socializing, credentialing, and sorting. But beyond this, the us also sees education and schooling as a way to address social economic inequality. In the united states, nearly from the beginning, the concept of educational opportunity had special meaning which focused on equality. He points to a shift in our viewpoint. School"s responsibility shifted from increasing and distributing equally its quality to increasing the quality of its students" achievements. Differences in school quality by race lead to this shift in focus. Racial disparities in class-size, access to materials, quality of teachers, condition of buildings (think. Which lead most people to believe that increases in resources would directly impact/influence school performance.
