Examples of Frankfurt School in the following topics:
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- Youth subcultures offer participants an identity outside of that prescribed by social institutions like family, work, home and school.
- Conversely, Marxists of the Frankfurt School of social studies argue that youth culture is inherently consumerist and integral to the divide-and-rule strategy of capitalism.
- Certain crowds are found in many, even most, high schools across the United States, although the particular terms used by adolescents in them vary (nerds instead of geeks, goths instead of emos, etc.).
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- Following the work of the Frankfurt School, popular culture has come to be taken more seriously as a terrain of academic inquiry and has also helped to change the outlooks of more established disciplines.
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- School violence is a serious problem in the United States.
- For example, school shootings account for less than 1% of violent crimes in public schools, yet nearly every school shooting makes national headlines.
- Finally, school violence tends to be higher in certain types of schools, the characteristics of which are listed below:
- School-wide strategies are designed to modify school characteristics associated with violence.
- Bullying is a common occurrence in most schools.
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- Because schools are funded by property taxes, schools in poor areas receive less funding then schools in wealthier areas.
- In the United States, most public schools are funded primarily through local property taxes.
- But unequal school funding may afford students from poorer families fewer opportunities, reinforcing the status quo.
- Since school funding is often based on property taxes, poorer neighborhoods may have less money available for schools.
- Examine the inequality in public school systems and the implications for a student's future
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- High school dropouts are much less likely to be employed than those with high school and college degrees.
- Academic risk factors relate to the performance of students in school.
- For example, students are more likely to drop out when they attend schools with less rigorous curriculum, when they attend large schools, or when they attend schools with poor student-teacher interactions.
- Students who build relationships with anti-social peers or who have deviant friends were more likely to drop out of school early regardless of their achievement in school.
- Chess legend Bobby Fischer never finished high school; however, most high school dropouts do not achieve his level of success.
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- Schools are environments structured around hierarchy, standardization, and specialization of certain skills.
- This school district was actively adopting technology and software as integrated, and integral, components of the traditional bureaucratic hierarchical brick and mortar system of schooling.
- However, they were excluded from the school system by segregation laws.
- In order to understand the bureaucratization of schools, we must understand the historical development of the school system.
- These needs formed the basis for school bureaucracies today.
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- Home schooling is the education of children at home rather than in the setting of a school.
- Motivations for homeschooling vary, but may include dissatisfaction with the school environment, religious or moral reasons, or dissatisfaction with the quality of academic instruction provided in local schools.
- First, in some states, homeschooling is treated like a type of private school.
- A minority of states require public schools to give homeschooled students access to district resources, such as school libraries, computer labs, extracurricular activities, or even academic courses.
- Still other state interscholastic athletic associations allow homeschoolers to organize teams that compete against other established schools, but do not allow homeschoolers to compete on established school teams.
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- When black students were bused in to these schools, white parents began to move their children out of such schools in large numbers.
- The report, titled "Equality of Educational Opportunity," came to be known as the "Coleman Report. " At the time, it launched widespread debate on school effects, or the ways in which school-level characteristics influence student achievement.
- Although Coleman found that, on average, black schools were funded on a nearly equal basis by the 1960s, he also found that socially-disadvantaged black students profited from schooling in racially-mixed classrooms.
- When black students were bused in to these schools, white parents began to move their children out of such schools in large numbers.
- The Coleman Report led to busing programs to help integrate schools.
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- Educational attainment is tied to social class, with upper class individuals acquiring higher degrees from more prestigious schools.
- Educational attainment refers to the level of schooling a person completes — for instance, high school, some college, college, or a graduate degree.
- Upper-class parents are better able to send their children not only to exclusive private schools, but also to public state-funded schools.
- Such schools are likely to be of higher quality in affluent areas than in impoverished ones, since they are funded by property taxes within the school district.
- Wealthy areas will provide more property taxes as revenue, which leads to higher quality schools.
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- Children who attend better-funded public schools tend to be more successful than those who attend more poorly funded public schools.
- Not only do wealthier students tend to attend better-funded schools, but they often also benefit from family background characteristics.
- The monetary advantages of unequal school funding are frequently coupled with the advantage of having a safe, supportive, and intellectually enriching home environment that comes with wealth.
- So it is not surprising that children who attend better-funded public schools tend to be more successful than those who attend more poorly funded public schools.
- In fact, family background may be even more important than school funding.