To Reform and Improve the American Educational System, What Does

question 107

Multiple Choice

To reform and improve the American educational system, what does the sociologist Randall Collins recommend?

• A) The first two years of college should be combined with high school to make the transition easier.
• B) The federal government should fund high schools so poor areas do not have poorly funded schools.
• C) It should be illegal for employers to ask about educational credentials.
• D) Standardized test scores should not be requested on college applications.

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Definitions:

Decreasing Returns

A concept in economics where each additional unit of input results in a progressively smaller increase in output, often observed in production processes.

Marginal Product

The additional output that is produced by using one more unit of a particular input while holding other inputs constant.

Factor

An element or component, such as land, labor, and capital, that is used in the production of goods and services.

Isoquant

An isoquant is a curve that represents all the combinations of inputs that yield the same level of output in the production process.