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Credentialism
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The view that academic degrees indicate the holders' qualifications to perform certain jobs or roles.
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Educational Inflation
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The situation in which the credentials required to obtain a job increase while the skills necessary to perform the job remain the same
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White flight
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An upsurge in white families moving to suburban neighborhoods to avoid mandatory busing
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Tracking
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Assigning students to dfferent educational programs on the basis of their abilities or interests
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Magnet schools
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Schools that offer specialized programs or intensive studies in certain subject areas to draw students from all residential areas of the community
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Homeschooling
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When children acquire education in their own homes, taught by their parents or other adults
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Hidden curriculum
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Lessons taught in school that do not appear as part of the formal lesson plans and learning obectives
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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Process whereby an authority figure's expectations and assumptions cause behaviors that fulfills those expectations and assumptions
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Sacred
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Those things that have supernatural significance and qualities
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Profane
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Those things that are regarded as part of ordinary life
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Ritual
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Commonly routinized behaviors that express and reinforce religious faith
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Church
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A formal religious organization that is well established and well integrated into its society
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Ecclesia
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A church that is a state's official religion
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Denomination
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A religion that maintains friendly relations with the government and with other religions but that does not claim to be the nation's only legitimate faith
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Sect
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A loosely organized, nonbureaucratic religious organization with nonprofessional leadership that actively rejects the social environment in which is exists.
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