Glossary 4th Unit

- Jackelyne Arbizú 4
- Fernando Dávila 6

- 10th Grade D

Bilingual Education

Education in an English-language school system in which students with little fluency in English are taught in both their native language and English

Charter schools

A school that is established by a charter, is run by teachers, parents, etc., and uses tax money

Church

Is a religious institution of worship, or is the building where religious worship takes place..

Cognitive Ability

Is the set of all mental abilities and processes related to knowledge

Compensatory Education

Educational programs intended to make up for experiences lacked by disadvantaged children.

Cooperative Learning

Is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences.

Cult

A small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or dangerous.

Cultural Bias

Is the phenomenon of interpreting and judging phenomena by standards inherent to one's own culture.

Denomination

A religious group.

Education

The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.

Educational Equality

Is a measure of achievement, fairness, and opportunity in education.

For-profit Education

Refers to educational institutions operated by private, profit-seeking businesses.

Fundamentalism

A movement in 20th century Protestantism emphasizing the literally interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian life and teaching.

Hidden Curriculum

Is a side effect of an education, such as the transmission of norms, values, and beliefs conveyed in the classroom and the social environment.

Integrative Curriculum

Innovative educators concerned with improving student achievement are seeking ways to create rigorous, relevant, and engaging curriculum.

Latent Function

Any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized.

Magnet Schools

A public school with special programs.

Manifest Function

Any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is planned and intentional.

Meritocracy

A system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement.

Monotheism

The doctrine or belief that there is only one God.

Multicultural Education

Is a set of strategies and materials in U.S. education that were developed to assist teachers when responding to the many issues created by the rapidly changing demographics of their students.

Open Classroom

A method or system utilizing such spacious classrooms and informal, flexible formats for learning and discussion.

Polytheism

The doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.

Profane

Characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things.

Protestant Ethic

A belief in and devotion to hard work, duty, thrift, self-discipline, and responsibility

Religion

Belief in, worship of, or obedience to a supernatural power or powers considered to be divine or to have control of human destiny

Religiosity

Excessive devotion to religion.

Sacred

Devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.

School Desegregation

Process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races.

Schooling

Instruction or training given at school.

Sect

A body of persons adhering to a particular religious faith; a religious denomination.

Secularization

Separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual.

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.

Tracking

The placing of students in any of several courses of study according to ability, achievement, or needs.

Voucher System

Accounting. a procedure for controlling disbursements by means of vouchers.