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LABAREE PART 2 (KEY IDEAS (credentialism ("The essence of schooling…

- - - - Social Mobility
        
        the movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society.
        
        "The social mobility goal asserts that schools should provide students with the educational credentials they need in order to get ahead in structure (or to maintain their current position)." (Labaree, 1997, p. 50)
      - Democratic Equality
        
        the idea that one requirement of treating persons as equals is that all citizens ought to be treated as equal citizens.
        
        "More recently, schools have sought to apply this egalitarian goal to groups whose ascribed status denied them equal educational standing in the 19th century" (Labaree, 1997, p. 45)
      - Social Efficiency
        
        "On the one hand, Americans have sought to make schools an institutional expression of their democratic and egalitarian political ideals and a social mechanism for realizing these ideals" (Labaree, 1997, p. 46)
        
        the position in education that calls for the direct teaching of knowledge, attitudes, and skills intended to shape the individual to predetermined social characteristics.
    - - "The potential for getting ahead via education grew increasingly into a potent reality, and the growing enrollments in the upper elementary grades began to precipitate a consumer demand for distinctive credentials at the high school and college level." (Labaree, 1997, p. 58)