Key Terms Chapter 16: Education
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| Words (or words that have the same definition) | The definition is case sensitive | (Optional) Image to display with the definition [Not displayed in Glossary, only in pop-up on pages] | (Optional) Caption for Image | (Optional) External or Internal Link | (Optional) Source for Definition |
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| (Eg. "Genetic, Hereditary, DNA ...") | (Eg. "Relating to genes or heredity") |  | The infamous double helix | https://bio.libretexts.org/ | CC-BY-SA; Delmar Larsen |
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| Credentialism | 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 | ||||
| Cultural Capital | cultural knowledge that serves (metaphorically) as currency to help one navigate a culture | ||||
| Cultural Transmission | the way people come to learn the values, beliefs, and social norms of their culture | ||||
| Education | a social institution through which a society’s children are taught basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms | ||||
| Formal Education | the learning of academic facts and concepts | ||||
| Grade Inflation | 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 | ||||
| Head Start Program | a federal program that provides academically focused preschool to students of low socioeconomic status | ||||
| Hidden Curriculum | the type of nonacademic knowledge that people learn through informal learning and cultural transmission | ||||
| Informal Education | education that involves learning about cultural values, norms, and expected behaviors through participation in a society | ||||
| No Child Left Behind Act | an act that requires states to test students in prescribed grades, with the results of those tests determining eligibility to receive federal funding | ||||
| Social Placement | the use of education to improve one’s social standing | ||||
| Sorting | classifying students based on academic merit or potential | ||||
| Tracking | a formalized sorting system that places students on “tracks” (advanced, low achievers) that perpetuate inequalities | ||||
| Universal Access | the equal ability of all people to participate in an education system |