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Quiz Education: the social institution through which society provides its members
with all kinds of what?
Ans: important knowledge
Quiz What does the Greek word 'scole' mean?
Ans: Leisure, which is hanging out and relaxing
Quiz For most of history, what group of people has been most likely to go to school?
Ans: Wealthy white males
Quiz Where did most kids learn before Thomas Jefferson's ideas changed
education?
Ans: Church
Quiz What was Jefferson's big idea?
Ans: Schools and religious places should be separate
Quiz What did Horace Mann want?
Ans: Free public school paid for by the taxpayers
Quiz When did every state finally require every kid to go to school?
Ans: 1918
Quiz Jefferson and Mann believed "a well educated populace was a necessary
requirement for what?
Ans: A democracy - a place where voters make the decisions. Democracy means
"rule by the people"
, Quiz What percentage of kids go to public school?
Ans: 87%
Quiz What percentage of kids go to private school?
Ans: 10%
Quiz What percentage of kids are homeschooled?
Ans: 3%
Quiz What is one of the biggest barriers (obstacles) to going to college?
Ans: Tuition (money!)
Quiz How many Americans graduate from college?
Ans: 35%
Quiz How are public schools funded (paid for)?
Ans: Your tax money
Quiz What are vocational schools?
Ans: Schools that train your for a specific job like cosmetology, electrician, cook,
construction
Quiz What is meant by "teaching the middle"?
Ans: Where there is a huge range of abilities in a classroom and the teacher plans
lessons for average kids, not the struggling students or the highest acheivers
Quiz At private school, what is often taught alongside academics?
Ans: Religion
Quiz What is homeschooling?
Ans: Teaching children at home rather than in formal schools.
Quiz Schools have intended consequences. What are those called?
Ans: Manifest Functions
Quiz What is credentialing?