Reading Quiz

Education and society

Let’s begin

Please put away your devices and pull out a sheet of paper.

Question #1 (2 pts)

Functionalist sociologists see the “sorting” that schools do as a way for society to ensure that the right people are prepared for the right jobs.

True or False?

Question #2 (3 pts)

The very opening part of the reading assigned for today discussed two groups of kindergartners it called the “golden children” and the “good readers”.

In your own words, what was that story about?

Question #3 (2 pts)

At its peak in the late 1990s, nearly 20% of schools in the United States were “intensely segregated schools” (defined as schools where 90% or more of the students are African American or Latinx); the percentage of such schools declined significantly in recent decades, falling to just over 5% in 2016.

True or False?

Question #4 (3 pts)

One section of today’s reading begins with the question, “How do you think your race has shaped your educational experiences?”

What is the next line?