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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
