Schools and Practices
Teachers
School district
Students
100
a type of school organization in which grade lines are eliminated for a sequence of two or more years.
What is Non-graded school
100
Sabbatical a leave usually granted with pay after a teacher has taught for a specific period of time
What is Sabbatical
100
the act of legally changing the designation of a school district; changing the geographical area of a school district or incorporating a part or all of a school district with an adjoin district.
What is Reorganization
100
program that combines part-time classroom study with gainful employment in industry or in the community
What is Work study
200
historically the first American institution devoted exclusively to teacher training
What is Normal school
200
Tenure a system of school employment in which educators, having served a probationary period , retain their postions indefinitely unless dismissed for legally specified reasons through clearly established procedures.
What is Tenure
200
the practice of permitting students to attend the school of their choice within their school system.
What is Open enrollment
200
Voucher Plan a means of financing schooling whereby funds are allocated to students’ parents who then purchase education for their children in any public or private school
What is Voucher Plan
300
a type of alternative education program that stresses involving the total community as learning resources.
What is Schools without walls
300
Pedagogy the science of teaching
What is Pedagogy
300
Tracking the meathod of placing students according to their ability level in homogeneous classes or learning experiences where they all follow the same curriculum, i.e. College prep or vocational
What is Tracking
400
the practice of permitting students to attend the school of their choice within their school system.
What is Open enrollment
400
Standardized test an instrument presenting a uniform task or series of tasks to be performed according to specified directions and under uniform conditions so that individual performances may be compared with one another and with a reference or normative group.
What is Standardized test
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