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| Greek root of this word is "leisure" |
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| An ancient Greece and China, the first people to have the benefits of schooling. |
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| Around the world, the share of children who never get to secondary grades of school. |
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| The U.S. reached the point where half the adult population had earned a high-school diploma by what year? |
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| In the U.S. today, about what share of the adult population has a high-school diploma? |
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| In the U.S. today, the share of people over the age of 25 who have earned a four-year college degree |
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| Practical and job-related |
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| 1. Socializing the young 2. Creating new culture 3. Helping to integrate a diverse population. |
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| Dividing children in a single grade and placing them in different curricula. |
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| Conducted a classic study of American education and argued that schools alone cannot overcome problems of social inequality. |
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| Condemns the U.S. educational system for unequal funding that makes some schools far better than others. |
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| Concluded that the home and local community matter most in shaping students' academic performance |
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| 1. Place higher education within the financial reach of millions of people. 2. Enroll half of all African American and Hispanic undergraduates. 3. Have faculty that focus their efforts on classroom teaching rather than research. |
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| In the U.S. today, Community Colleges enroll ____ percent of all college undergraduates. |
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| According to this perspective, schooling in the U.S. transforms social privilege into personal merit |
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| In the U.S., about ___ of people aged 16-24 drop out before completing high school. |
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| The school dropout rate is highest (22.1%) for this category of the U.S. population. |
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| Many young people in the U.S. leave school without having learned basic skills. |
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| Compared to those given 35 years ago, the average grades in U.S. high schools today are much HIGHER |
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