SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Black Kids, Jim Crow Laws, Intelligence Quotient
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Education as a social institution: problems that education solves, the need to teach basic skills and impart knowledge, functional illiteracy: the inability to ready or write well enough to be a functioning member of society. Affects 14% of americans ages 16: functional innumeracy: the lack od mat skills needed to function in society. Affects 22% of americans ages 16: the need to teach specific skills for the workplace, the need for socialization, teach the skills that we as a society deem important. It was previously believed that the inequality of the schools was due to resources. 1985 study randomly assigned students and teachers to small classes (13-17 students) and regular-sized classes (22-26 students). Researchers tracked participants from kindergarten to third grade. They found that students in smaller classes experienced higher achievement test scores and had fewer disciplinary problems. These benefits proved to be long lasting: tracking: Tracking sorts students into different classes, either by ability or by future plans.
