EDUC 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Family Values, Human Capital, Economic Inequality
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Peak in number of kids in 9th grade due to inflow from homeschool and etc. Higher returns on education (more bang for your buck) The value of education has risen since it is becoming more globally competitive. The us is doing better at graduating people but other countries are revamping their systems therefore surpassing the us. Human capital: (skills) individual"s skills, knowledge, training, and expertise. Socialization: (norms, morals) teaching of norms, morals, customs and ideologies. School teaches social culture because most kids only know what their specific family values. Cultural capital: (tastes, attitudes, dispositions) knowledge and ability to display widely shared, high status cultural attitudes, preferences, formal knowledge, behaviors, etc. What americans think are fancy (opera, ballet, etc) Virtues of american education emerged from the civil war egalitarian principles. 10/7/2014 11:00:00 pm: history of american public education: the colonies to 1900. 1635-1636 latin school, first public school, only boys till 1970s.
