Vocabulary words for Schools and Society Chapt 5
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| Academy | A secondary school that focused on the practical needs of colonial America as a growing nation.
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| Head Start | A federal compensatory education program designed to help 3- to 5-year-old disadvantaged children enter school to learn.
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| Progressive education | An educational philosophy emphasizing curricula that focus on real-world problem solving and individual development.
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| Assimilation | A process of socializing people so that they adopt dominant social norms and patters of behavior.
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| Junior High Schools | Schools that were originally designed in the early 1900s to provide a unique academic curriculum for early adolescent youth.
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| "Separate but equal" | A policy of segregating minorities in education, transportation, housing, and other ares of public life if opportunities and facilities were considered equal to those of non-minorities.
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| "Separate but equal" | In education, the policy was evidenced by separate schools with different curricula, teaching methods, teachers and resources.
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| Character education | A curriculum approach to developing student morality suggesting that moral values and positive character traits, such as honesty and citizenship, should be emphasized, taught, and rewarded.
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| Latin Grammar school | A college-preparatory school originally designed to help boys prepare for the ministry or, later, for a career in law.
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| Title I | A federal compensatory education program that funds supplemental education services for low-income students in elementary and secondary schools.
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| Common school movement | A historical attempt to make education available to all children in the United States.
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| Magnet schools | Public schools that provide innovative or specialized programs that attempt to attract students from all parts of a district.
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| vouchers | A check or written document that parents can use to purchase educational services.
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| Compensatory education program | Government attempts to crate more equal educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth.
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| Middle schools | Schools, typically for grades 6-8 specifically designed to help students through the rapid social, emotional, and intellectual changes characteristic of early adolescence.
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| War on Poverty | A general term for federal programs designed to eradicate poverty during the 1960s.
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| Comprehensive high school | A secondary school that attempts to meet the needs of all students by housing them together and providing curricular options (e.g., vocational or college-preparatory programs) geared toward a variety of student ability levels and interests.
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| Normal schools | Two-year institutions developed in the early 1800s to prepare prospective elementary teachers.
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| English classical school | A free secondary school designed to meet the needs of boys not planning to attend college.
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| Old Deluder Satan Act | Early colonial law designed to create scripture-literature citizens who would thwart Satan's trickery.
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