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WGU FST5 FOT: Schools & Society

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show The process of requiring students to demonstrate understanding of the topics they study as measured by standardized tests as well holding educators at all levels responsible for student performance  
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Assessment   show
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Autonomy   show
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show The knowledge and skills that teachers teach and students are supposed to learn.  
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Decision-making   show
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show Sets of moral standards for acceptable professional behavior.  
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Extrinsic rewards   show
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show Assessments that states use to determine whether students will advance from one grade to another, graduate from H.S. or have access to specific fields of study  
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show Rewards that come from within oneself and are personally satisfying for emotional or intellectual reasons.  
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Merit pay   show
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Professional portfolio   show
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show An occupation characterized by a specialized body of knowledge with emphasis on autonomy, decision making, reflection and ethical standards for conduct.  
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Reflection   show
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Reforms   show
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Standards   show
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Technician   show
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Academy   show
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show A process of socializing people so that they adopt dominant social norms and patterns of behavior.  
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show A curriculum approach to developing student morality suggesting that moral values and positive character traits such as honesty and citizenship should be taught and rewarded  
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Common School Movement   show
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show Government attempts to create more equal educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth. ie. Head Start, Title I.  
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show A secondary school that attemptsto meet the needs of all students by housing them together and providing curricular options. Ie. vocational or college-prep programs.  
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English Classical School   show
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show A federal compensatory education program designed to help 3-5 y.o. disadvantaged children enter school ready to learn.  
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show Schools that were originally designed in the early 1900s to provide a unique academic curriculum for early adolescent youth.  
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show Usually found in New England developed to help prepare boys for then entrance exam into Harvard w/ strong emphasis on Latin and Greek. Similar to how today's H.S. prepares students for college.  
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Magnet Schools   show
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show Schools, typically grades 6-8 designed to help students through the rapid social emotional and intellectual changes characteristic of early adolescence.  
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show State funded schools specifically established for public teacher education. Provided the teacher with a lab for learning using model classrooms to practice their new skills  
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Old Deluder Satan Act   show
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Progressive Education   show
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show A policy of segregating minorities in education, transportation and housing if opportunities and facilities were considered equal to those of non-minorities.  
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Title I   show
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show A check or written document that parents can use to purchase educational services.  
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show A general term for federal programs designed to eradicate poverty during the 1960s.  
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Axiology   show
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Character Education   show
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Epistemology   show
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Essentialism   show
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show A traditional philosophy suggesting that humanity isn't part of an orderly universe; rather individuals create their own realities.  
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show A traditional philosophy asserting that ideas are the only reliable form of reality.  
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Logic   show
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show (ontology) The branch of philosophy that considers WHAT we know.  
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Moral Physics   show
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Normative Philosophy   show
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Perennialism   show
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Philosophy   show
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Philosophy of Education   show
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show An educational philosophy contending that many of the institutions in our society including schools are used by those in power to control and marginalize those who lack power.  
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Pragmatism   show
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Progressivism   show
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Realism   show
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Standards   show
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show A set of related principles that are based on observation and are used to explain additional observations.  
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show Federal monies provided to states and school districts with few restrictions for use  
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show Monies targeted for specific groups and designated purposes.  
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Charter Schools   show
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show An educational option in which parents educate their children at home.  
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Local School Board   show
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show The individual who has the ultimate administrative responsibility for the school's operation.  
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show An administrative unit within a state, defined by geographical boundaries, and legally responsible for the public education of children within those boundaries.  
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show A school management reform movement that attempts to place increased responsibility for governance at the individual school level.  
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show The legal governing body that exercises general control and supervision of the schools in a state.  
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State office of education   show
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State tuition tax-credit plans   show
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show The school district's head administrative officer, along with his or her staff, responsible for implementing that policy in the district's school.  
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show A check or written document that parents can use to purchase educational services.  
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Academic Freedom   show
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Affirmative Action   show
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Buckley Amendment   show
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show Federal laws designed to protect the intellectual property of authors, including printed matter, videos, computer software and various other types of original work.  
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Establishment Clause   show
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Fair use guidelines   show
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Free exercise clause   show
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in loco parentis   show
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Licensure   show
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Negligence   show
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show The extent to which a teacher's behavior becomes known and controversial.  
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Professional Ethics   show
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Reduction in force   show
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Teaching Contract   show
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Tenure   show
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show A set of adaptive tolls that support students with disabilities in learning activities and daily life tasks.  
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show An electronic message center for a given topic.  
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show A site on the Internet where many people can simultaneously communicate in real time.  
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Computer literacy   show
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show A computer program that allows users to store, organize, and manipulate information including both text and numerical data.  
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show Organized instructional programs in which teachers and learners, though physically separated are connected through technology.  
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show Electronic mail sent through the internet  
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Hypermedia   show
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Icon   show
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Internet   show
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show An instructional strategy that uses a problem and the data gathered in attempts to solve it as the focal point of a lesson.  
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Simulations   show
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show Computer programs that are used to organize and manipulate numerical data.  
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Tutorial   show
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show Uniform Resource Locator. A series of letters or symbols that acts as a an address for a site on the Internet.  
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show A location on the World Wide Web identified with a uniform resource locator (URL).  
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Assimilation   show
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Caring   show
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Culturally-responsive teaching   show
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show The knowledge, attitudes, values, customs and behavior patterns that characterize a social group.  
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show Language program that emphasizes rapid transition to English.  
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Ethnicity   show
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show Language program that emphasizes rapid transition to English. Little to no emphasis on previous language.  
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Latchkey Children   show
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Learning Style   show
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show Socioeconomic level composed of managers, administrators, and white-collar workes who perform non-manual labor.  
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Multicultural education   show
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Resilient Students   show
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Sexual harassment   show
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show Classes and schools where boys and girls are segregated for part or all of the day.  
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show (SES) The combination of family income, parents' occupations and the level of parental education.  
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Students placed at-risk   show
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show People with low incomes who continually struggle with economic problems.  
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Upper class   show
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show -State control of education -Wanted expert professional supervision of schools far removed from parents, other private interests and political interference. -Suggested Local districts submit to state administrators. State submits to the nation.  
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Horace Mann   show
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Robert Breckenridge   show
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Pluralism   show
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show Catholic priest. Set into motion secularization of public schools.  
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Catherine Beecher   show
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show Founder of Tuskegee Institute and leading advocate for educational and economic improvement of blacks. Stressed learning by doing the task and not by theories or abstract ideas.  
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show Alternative to drill and recitation. Ideas should be grounded in experience based on psychological & physical development as well as the world outside the classroom. Ideas formed the basis of progressive education.  
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Albert Shanker   show
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show Known for single handedly bringing down segregation in schools in America. Brown v. Topeka Board of Education.  
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Jose Angel Gutiérrez   show
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show Founded Central Park Elem a highly successful alt sch emphasizing active learning. She succeeded by fostering democratic community, teachers greater autonomy in the running of a school, parents a voice in schooling, and promoting a family-oriented system  
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show The leading voice in the “back to basics” movement. Best known for "Cultural Literacy — What Every American Needs To Know" a list of facts, quotations and information to be essential knowledge for all Americans.  
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show Believe the "talented tenth" should have the same access to a college education as the white leaders of society.  
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show grounded in common law doctrine of parens patriae which means the state in its guardian role has the authority to enact reasonable laws for the welfare of its citizens and state.  
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Quantitative Research   show
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Qualitative Research   show
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Basic Research   show
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show Primarily concerned with the application of a theory to the solution of problems. Three types Evaluation, Research & Development, and Action Research  
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show Systematic process of gathering data to make decisions of educational relevance  
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Research & Development   show
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show Solve practical problems through the application of scientific method. Is concerned with immediate solutions to real problems  
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Historical Research   show
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Descriptive Research   show
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show attempts to determine whether and to what degree a relationship exists between two or more numerical variables. ie. the relationship between intelligence and self esteem  
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show attempts to establish cause and effect relationships among the variables of the study. ie the effect of having a working mother on absenteeism  
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show Like Casual-comparative in an attempt to establish cause and effect but the experimenter controls the cause (independent variable) ie the effect of positive reinforcement on attitude toward school  
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