What is educational tracking?
What will be an ideal response?
Tracking is the process of evaluating children and determining what educational process they should follow. In principle, tracks are organized according to ability; in reality lower-status children have a greater likelihood of being placed in the lower tracks.
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a. individuals have biological predispositions to addiction b. treatment does not overcome predispositions to addiction c. medical knowledge is irrelevant to addiction d. addiction is a moral failing
What percent of scholarships in the United States as of the early 1990s were set aside for minority students?
a. 10% b. 20% c. 4% d. 30%
Results of a recent experiment that sent out fictitious resumes to real job ads found that __________ and _________ workers got the least number of callbacks, suggesting that our cultural biases about “good workers” are complex.
A) younger; male B) older; female C) younger; female D) older; male
Women have not played a significant role in sociology up to this point
Indicate whether the statement is true or false