Audio Resources

Audio 11.1: A Talk to Teachers
Description: More than 54 years ago James Baldwin delivered a talk to educators that is still relevant today
Learning Objective: 11.5: Provide examples of how society’s culture influences educational policy.

Audio 11.2: A Recipe for Success with Two Student Groups That Often Struggle
Description: NPR highlights an approach to education aimed at giving Native American students and students from poorer areas chances to succeed.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare rational choice and symbolic interaction explanations for why students succeed—or don’t—in school.

Audio 11.3: Why Aren’t Students Showing Up for College?
Description: This piece explores the phenomenon of ‘summer melt’ whereby more than 40% of students who sign up for college never make it to the university in the fall.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare rational choice and symbolic interaction explanations for why students succeed—or don’t—in school.

Video Resources

Video 11.1: The Education Revolution
Description: Education Revolution focuses on how education is changing to adapt to our new digital world, examining what the classroom might look like in the future and the impact of online teaching, with talks from innovators in the field of education.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Provide examples of how society’s culture influences educational policy.

Video 11.2: Truth and Lies of Education
Description: Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan discusses his new book “How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success From One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education.”
Learning Objective: 11.3: Illustrate the bureaucratization of education.

Web Resources

Web 11.1: Education: Good for Society
Description: People who attend universities are less likely to commit crime, drink heavily, or smoke, according to a new database of evidence on the social benefits of higher education.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Provide examples of how society’s culture influences educational policy.

Web 11.2: School Funding Fairness
Description: According to a recent report by the Education Law Center in most states the public school funding remains unfair and inequitable, depriving millions of U.S. students of the opportunity for school success.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare rational choice and symbolic interaction explanations for why students succeed—or don’t—in school.