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Education: Is the process of facilitating learning. Knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. SENTENCE :Education makes each person differently
SCHOOLING Instruction, education, or training when received in a school. SENTENCE: I am happy to provide you with a grant to continue your schooling at the University of Maryland.
HIDDEN CURRICULUM: Is a side effect of an education which are learned, transmission of norms, values. SENTENCE a hidden curriculum reinforces existing social inequalities by educating students according to their class and social status.
Tracking: the act or process of following something or someone. SENTENCE: While we refrained from tracking our results, when we learned through public media of a success, we celebrated.
Bilingual education: Involves teaching academic content in two languages, in a native and secondary language. SENTENCE: The bilingual education improve people in other countries.
Open classroom: A school or classroom in which this system is practiced. students of varying skill levels. SENTENCE: open classroom is a system of elementary education in which instruction and activities are informally
COOPERATIVE LEARNING: is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic SENTENCE: There is much more to Cooperative Learning than merely arranging students into groups
INTEGRATIVE CURRICULUM: is a learning theory describing a movement toward integrated lessons helping students SENTENCE:Integrative Learning comes in many varieties: connecting skills and knowledge.
VOUCHER SYSTEM: Internal financial control system for cash or check payments that relies on vouchers to (1) establish the propriety of transactions. SENTENCE: The voucher system that was in place was very sturdy and reliable and worked great for all of us on the floor.
CHARTER SCHOOLS: is a major decision for many parents and can have a significant impact on the quality of education that your children receive. SENTENCE: A key area where charter schools have consistently shown higher results in schools in disadvantaged.
Magnet schools: are built on the foundation of five pillars and are free public elementary and secondary schools of choice that are operated by school districts or a consortium of districts. Sentence: Magnet schools have a focused theme and aligned curricula in Science, Technology
For-profit education: refers to educational institutions operated by private, profit-seeking businesses. sentence : For-profit higher education in the United States
Manifest function: any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is planned and intentional. Sentence: I assume that it is undeniable that motherhood is woman's most manifest function.
Latent function: any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized. Sentence: Compare manifest function.
MERITOCRACY: Governance by elites who deserve to wield power because they possess merit. SENTENCE:The new meritocracy seemed effective at first because of the intelligence and skill of those running the government.
EDUCATIONAL EQUALITY: everyone should have the same opportunities in life. No one should be discriminated against because of social background, gender, religion, or age. Sentence: The idea of education equality has brought immense change across the world within a few centuries,
COGNITIVE ABILITy: is the capacity to perform higher mental processes of reasoning, remembering, understanding, and problem solving. Sentence: The cognitive ability of my mother is very strongestt than me
CULTURAL BIAS: is the phenomenon of interpreting and judging phenomena by standards inherent to one's own culture. Sentence: the cultural bias of maya is that believe in many gods.
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION: Ubiquitous and legally sanctioned in the South, school segregation by custom Sentence: Southern whites put up a major fight and stymied school desegregation for a full
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. Sentence: personal detachment are possible benefits to a Multicultural education.
COMPENSATORY EDUCATION: offers supplementary programs or services designed to help children at risk of cognitive impairment and low educational achievement Sentence: A child with disabilities may be able to obtain “compensatory education”
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 Sentence: Self-fulfilling prophecies occur more often than you'd think. In this lesson, we discuss this phenomenon and explain how it's due to a cognitive
RELIGION: a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies Sentence:to acquire a deep conviction of the validity of religious beliefs and practices.
SACRED: devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated. Sentence :We champion the cause for which our founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor—to form a more perfect union.
PROFANE: characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious. Sentence: He will interrupt his subjects with gruff asides or profane exclamations.
MONOTHEISM: the doctrine or belief that there is only one God. Sentence: dHere, it has been maintained, we see the Teutonic faith rising to monotheism.
POLYTHEISM: the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods. Sentence: To many outside Christianity, this looks a bit like polytheism !
RELIGIOSITY: the quality of being religious; piety; devoutness. Sentence: religiosity can certainly affect our sexuality," Levkoff says.
SECULARIZATION: to make secular, separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism. Sentence: The order of secularization was put into effect in 1835 by Manuel Jimeno Casarin.
FUNDAMENTALISM: he beliefs held by those in this movement. Sentence: There is a struggle between freedom and fundamentalism in our time, both at home and abroad.
PROTESTANT ETHIC: A secular kind of Protestant ethic is alive and well in post-Christian Europe. Sentence: in his paper “Economic Growth and Institutions: The Rise and Fall of the Protestant ethic ?”
DENOMINATION: a religious group, usually including many local churches, often larger than a sect Sentence: They lead open, affirming, sex-positive, and religious lives in every Christian and Jewish denomination in America.
SECT: a body of persons adhering to a particular religious faith; a religious denomination. Sentence: Perhaps what the sect and its leader most teach us is the way some on the American and Israeli Right are desperate for allies.
Cult: a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies. Sentence: Yes, which leads me to a fascination with the cult leader, which is in a way what Skilling was at ENRON.
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