Deck 4: Inequality of Opportunity

Question 1

Countries with low levels of schooling of the youth have inordinately high levels of population growth.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Equality of educational opportunity will guarantee that persons will not have different outcomes in their lives.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Equality of opportunity is a well-defined concept that is easily implemented both politically and economically.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The state is obligated to provide for equality of educational opportunity.

Question 5

Public schools have been historically tied to property wealth.

Question 6

Public education is one of the fundamental rules of popular or legitimate government.

Question 7

A society in which every member holds an equal quantity of property needs justification.

Question 8

Commager, in his classic work, The Empire of Reason, showed how the United States had fallen short in implementing Enlightenment ideals.

Question 9

The great economists' metaphor of the "invisible hand" showed how complete equality could be achieved.

Question 10

Market capitalism if left unfettered will achieve maximum equality and sustained economic growth.

Question 11

Social Darwinism is a concept that sets philosophical standards for equality of opportunity.

Question 12

Poverty rates in the United States are worse than the average for the OECD (Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development)

Question 13

States in the United States have unequal economic resources.

Question 14

Contrast equality of opportunity and equality of result.

Question 15

Name four causes of inequality.

Question 16

Briefly state the view of Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1758, toward public education and government.

Question 17

Explain Isaiah Berlin's metaphor of cakes and shares.

Question 18

What is Kultner's point regarding political democracy and market capitalism?

Question 19

Does market capitalism provide a workable moral standard for society?

Question 20

When Reinhold Niebuhr spoke of "specious proofs" regarding inequality, what did he mean?

Question 21

Is fairness a synonym for equality? Explain.

Question 22

Are "relevant differences" among children a legitimate criterion for differences in school funding? Explain.

Question 23

Explain the "difference principle" as propounded by John Rawls in his book The Theory of Justice.

Question 24

Briefly discuss the issue of inequality both within and among countries.

Question 25

Is there a rising trend toward inequality in the United States? If so, what are the remedies?

Question 26

How does the United States rank among the developed countries on measures of internal inequality?

Question 27

Briefly cite the evidence regarding intrastate school district funding disparities.