Vocabulary Words for Glossary

Bilingual education :
involves teaching academic content in two languages, in a native and secondary language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model.

Charter schools:
public schools that are operated like private schools by public school teachers and administrators

Church:
a life-encompassing religious organizations that most members of a society accept as legitimate

Cognitive ability:
capacity for thinking abstractly

Compensatory education:
specific curricular programs designed to overcome a deficiency

Cooperative learning:
instructional method that relies on cooperation among students.

Cult:
a religious organization whose charecteristics are not drawn from existing religious traditions within a society

Cultural bias:
the unfair measurement of the cognitive abilities of people in some social categories.

Denomination:
as a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name, tradition, and identity.

Education:
is the process of facilitating learning. Knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits of a group of people are transferred to other people, through storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, or research

Educational equality:
condition in which schooling produces the same results for lower-class and minority children as it does for other children.

For-profit schools:
schools run by private companies on government funds

fundamentalism:
the resistance of secularization and the rigid adherence to traditional religiuos beliefs, rituals, and doctrines.

Hidden curriculum:
the nonacademic agenda that teaches discipline,order,cooperativeness and conformity.

Integrative curriculum:
an aproach to education based on student-teacher colaboration

Latent function:
an action that produces an unintended and unrecognized result

Magnet schools:
public schools that focus on particular disciplines or areas, such as fine arts of science

Manifest function:
an action that produces an intended and recognized result