SOCIOL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: No Child Left Behind Act, Programme For International Student Assessment, Education Review
13 Jul 2016
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Rise and fall of the male-breadwinner marriage. Rise of the dual-career family has a positive side and a negative side. Cultural incoherence: ideal of lifelong marriage but we want divorce to be easy. New dual career marriage has new challenges o. Debates about the status and future of public education. Education is critical for a host of reasons: o. Education has been an important pathway to upward mobility in the usa: democracy depends on an educated, informed citizenry o. 21st century technological societies require highly-educated work forces in order to compete in global society: as we"ll see in the next few weeks, we are up against some tough problems, civilization-wise. Education needs to be part of the solution! The conventional wisdom: america is falling behind other industrialized countries, oecd pisa 2012 results: Us tied for 17th in reading literacy among 15-year-olds. Us tied for 27th in mathematics literacy among 15-year-olds.
