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Fall Semester Final
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45
Education
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2006

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Autodidact
Definition
a self taught person
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Competition
Definition
the conservative panacea for all public education's ills and problems
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Curriculum
Definition
the "WHAT" of teaching
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Merit Pay
Definition
administrative control device, that pits teacher against teacher
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Social Promotion
Definition
passing an unqualified student to the next grade
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Miseducation
Definition
what Dewey considered any experience that corrupts man
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Poor Children
Definition
end up in the largest classes in the nation
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Constitution
Definition
fails to mention education or school
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Philosophy
Definition
the "WHY" of teaching
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Methodology
Definition
the "HOW" of teaching
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Balkanization
Definition
breaking up into rival, waring, ethnic, lingustic factions
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Technology
Definition
study and application of labor saving devices
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Class Size
Definition
one of the few factors under educator's control that will improve learning
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President Carter
Definition
established the Dept. of Education (1979)
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Experience
Definition
what Dewey considered the primary educator
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Majeutic Method
Definition
question and answer, discussion
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Paideia
Definition
ancient Greece, educational community, culutured society, entire community acting as educators
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Constructivism
Definition
educational theory that learners assemble their knowledge through their experiences
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Objectivism
Definition
belief that knowledge has an existence independents of the learner
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Humanism
Definition
existential school of pscyh that promotes mans personal freedom, individuality
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Behaviorism
Definition
school of pysch that manipulates behavior by conditioning with stimulus and response
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I.E.P.
Definition
special learning conditions that are negotiated for special students
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Charter School
Definition
private schools included in the public school system
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Cost
Definition
greatest factor working against smaller classes
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Inclusion
Definition
mainstreaming disabled students into the regular program for all their children
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Pavlov-Watson-Skinner
Definition
3 greatest behaviorists
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Accountability
Definition
takes responsibility of learning off the student and puts it on the teacher
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Zero-Tolerance
Definition
policy of mandatory penalties, with no exceptions allowed
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Brown vs. Board
Definition
outlawed school segregation, started the whole civil rights movement
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Eagle vs. Vitale
Definition
court case that outlawed school prayer
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Senority System
Definition
system of paying teachers in years of service and advanced degrees
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Vouchers
Definition
school tuition coupons enabling a student to attend the school of their choice
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Busing
Definition
Strategy used to desegragate schools
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States
Definition
have reserved power over education
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Ed School
Definition
often the cash cow of the University
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The School
Definition
an oasis of sanity for many children
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Horace Mann
Definition
father of the american public school system
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For-Profit Schools
Definition
privately owned schools, run like a business, in order to make money
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Cultural Capital
Definition
academic, scholastic advantages that affluent students inherit
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English
Definition
the "Lingua Franka" of planet Earth
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Immersion Programs
Definition
students are taught soley in English, 100% English
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Billingual Education
Definition
students are taught english along with their language also
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Home-Schooling
Definition
radical solutions for those who can find no good in public or private schools
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Progressive Movement
Definition
american social movement expected to reform society
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Secular Humanism
Definition
philosophy against religion
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