Audio Resource

Audio 1: Why Low-Income Students Are “Under-Matching” With Colleges

Description: This podcast episode explores the need to make room for poor students at rich schools.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Discuss key issues in U.S. higher education, including the relationship between education and income potential, the debate over college internships, and the college dropout phenomenon.

Video Resources

Video 1: Hidden Curriculum

Description: This video discusses the concept of hidden curriculums by analyzing the Disney movie Inside Out.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Apply conflict, functionalist, and symbolic interactionist theoretical perspectives to the institution of education.                             

Video 2: Alabama Schools Come Shockingly Close to Resegregation

Description: This video explores school segregation in Jefferson County, AL.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Discuss key issues in U.S. higher education, including the relationship between education and income potential, the debate over college internships, and the college dropout phenomenon.

Web Resource

Web 1: Before a Test, a Poverty of Words

Description: This article explores the effects of word poverty.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Explain how education may function to both reduce and reproduce social inequalities.