SOCI 1160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Residential Segregation In The United States, Racial Segregation In The United States, Bilingual Education
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Education is the social institution by which societies transmit knowledge to its members includes basic facts, job skills, cultural norms and values. Schooling is formal instruction carried out by specially trained teachers. It is more available in some parts of the world than in others. In the poorest nations many children especially, girls do not go to school. In poor nations: children go to work at an early age, governments are trying to increase literacy by expanding enrollment, males have greater opportunity in education. High income nations like the us: higher rates of schooling and literacy, education is necessity for jobs. By 1918 all students required to attend schools to age 16 or 8th grade. African american students score about 300 points lower than white students. Hispanics score about 220 points lower than white students. Asian americans have higher average scores than white students.
