| Question | Answer |
| VOCABULARY WORDS FOR GLOSSARY | Lucía Corado 10 Sofía Pérez 21 |
| 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 | |
| MERITOCRACY A society in which social status is based on ability and achievement | |
| MONOTHEISM Is the belief in one god. For example: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | |
| MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION An educational curriculum that emphasizes differences among gender, ethnic, and racial categories | |
| OPEN CLASSROOM A nonbureaucratic approach to education based on democracy, flexibility, and noncompetitiveness | |
| POLYTHEISM Refers to the belief in a number of gods. For example: Hinduism | |
| PROFANE Nonsacred | |
| PROTESTANT ETHIC A set values, norms, beliefs, and attitudes stressing hard work, thrift, and self-discipline | |
| RELIGION A unified system of beliefs and practices concerned with sacred things | |
| RELIGIOSITY Ways in which people express their religious interests and convictions | |
| SACRED Holy; set apart and given a special meaning that goes beyond, or transcends, immediate existence | |
| SCHOOL DESEGREGATION The achievement of a racial balance in the classroom | |
| SCHOOLING Is formal education, which involves instruction by specially trained teachers who follow officially recognized policies | |
| SECT A religious organization that arises out of desire to reform an existing religious organization | |
| SECULARIZATION Process through which the sacred loses influence over society | |
| SELF – FULFILLING PROPHECY A prediction that results in behavior that makes the prediction come true | |
| TRACKING Placement of students in programs according to academic ability levels | |
| VOUCHER SYSTEM System in which public school funds may be used to support public, private, or religious schools |
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