class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # SOC 2220 Discussion Section ## Week 4 ### Xuewen Yan ### 2020-09-25 --- # Assessment: Quiz and section make-up Quiz: Tuesday Lecture slides! Section make-up: 2 page double-spaced response to section activities --- # Concept review - Equality of educational opportunity (Coleman 1990[1968]) - Equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome - Student achievement vs educational attainment - Explanations for Catholic school effect + selection effect - Charter school and charter school effect (Berends 2015) - Components of school resources (list as many as you can) --- # Concept review Equality of educational opportunity (Coleman 1990[1968]) - Free education; Common curriculum; Attending the same school regardless of background; Equality within a given locality; Student achievement vs educational attainment - Student achievement: test scores, grades; attainment: level of education, such as high school graduation rates, college entrance Catholic school effect - The increased student performance associated with attending private Catholic schools - Selection effect: higher achievement among Catholic school kids because of their prior family/pupil characteristics Charter school effect - mixed results in achievement, positive results in attainment --- Components of school resources - School sector (private, public, and charter school) - Tracking (college track vs vocational school track) - Environment inside school (School funding, class size, teacher/student ratios, workload, long school day, peer relationships, teacher-student relationships) - Environment outside school (community, neighborhood, residence, region) --- # Section Activity Video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1nldNpdTn4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLDMPg5op28) Questions: 1. Does the "tale of two schools" story contradict the finding from the Coleman report that school funding has "virtually no effect" on student achievements? (Kozol 2015) 2. Disucss Raudenbusch 2017. Does schooling contribute to or alleviate social inequality? 3. Talk about the schools that you have attended. Do you feel that school choice matters? In what ways? (hint: out-school environment; in-school environment; tracking, sector, culture, social capital, etc.) --- # Section Feedback Survey https://forms.gle/HJcm8riEt4vcWDsS9