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Why does the home environment have more effect on academic performance than the school environment?

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What are four societal functions of schooling?

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In low-income nations, why do girls receive less schooling than boys?

What is "functional illiteracy"? How extensive is this problem in the United States?

One indication that there is a problem of grade inflation is the fact that almost half of all grades given to today's high school students are:

James Coleman concluded that the only factor needed to improve schooling was increased school funding.

The Japanese place greater importance on achievement test scores than we do in the United States in selecting students to attend colleges and universities.

In India, fewer boys than girls reach secondary school.

Which of the following is a latent function of schooling?

In the United States, the focus of education has always been:

Which of the following categories of the U.S. population has the highest dropout rate?

How is the development of schooling linked to economic development?

How does schooling advance the goal of socially integrating a large, diverse population?

This chapter's "Seeing Sociology in the News" story explains that community colleges provide:

What are several reasons that community colleges are important to higher education in the United States?

In the world as a whole, about what share of children reach the secondary grades in school?

Theodore Sizer maintains that, in order to do their job, U.S. schools need to be large and bureaucratic.

The extent of schooling in a society is closely tied to its level of economic development.

What percentage of U.S. adults are high school graduates? College graduates?

The dropout rate is higher for young people from rich families, who have many opportunities to succeed without going to school.