EDUCATION

the emphasis on certificates or degrees to show that a person has a certain skill, has attained a certain level of education, or has met certain job qualifications

• formal education

• informal education

• credentialism

cultural knowledge that serves (metaphorically) as currency to help one navigate a culture

• cultural capital

• cultural transmission

• education

the way people come to learn the values, beliefs, and social norms of their culture

• informal education

• cultural transmission

• hidden curriculum

Education is a social institution through which a society’s children are taught basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms

• True

• False

the learning of academic facts and concepts

• education

• hidden curriculum

• formal education

the idea that the achievement level associated with an A today is notably lower than the achievement

level associated with A-level work a few decades ago

• universal access

• No Child Left Behind Act

• grade inflation

Head Start is a state program that provides academically focused preschool to students of high socioeconomic status

• True

• False

the type of nonacademic knowledge that people learn through informal learning and cultural transmission

• cultural transmission

• informal education

• hidden curriculum

an act that requires states to test students in prescribed grades, with the results of those tests determining eligibility to receive federal funding

• No Child Left Behind Act

• Head Start Program

• universal access

the use of education to improve one’s social standing

• sorting

• social placement

• tracking