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Library/Glossary
Category: ALL  
Click on any term in this category to get a definition and more information.
ability grouping    independent study   
Academic Performance Index (API)    Individualized Education Program (IEP)   
Accelerated Schools Project    Individuals with Disabilities Education Act   
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)    instructional aide   
accreditation    interdisciplinary   
active learning    International Baccalaureate schools   
adequate yearly progress    language arts   
Advanced Placement (AP)    leveled reading books   
alternative assessment    Limited English Proficient   
alternative schools    looping   
API similar schools    magnet school   
Arizona Department of Education    mainstreaming   
Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards    manipulatives   
at-risk student    Math Counts   
attendance area    Measure of Academic Progress   
authentic assessment    mixed grouping   
average class size    Montessori   
average daily attendance (ADA)    multi-age class   
back-to-basics    multicultural education   
benchmark    multiple intelligences   
bilingual    national percentile rank   
Bilingual Advisory Council (BAC)    norm-referenced test   
bilingual education    open enrollment   
block schedule    outcomes   
California Basic Education Skills Test (CBEST)    parochial school   
California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS)    peer resource program   
California Department of Education (CDE)    performance assessment   
categorical funds    phonemic awareness   
certificated employee    phonics   
charter holder    planning period   
charter school    portfolio   
class size reduction    private school   
classified employee    Proposition 13   
Coalition for Essential Schools (CES)    Proposition 227   
Collaborative Literacy Intervention Project (CLIP)    pullout program   
Comer School Development Program    pupil services   
Conditions of Learning    pupil-teacher ratio   
conflict resolution    Reading Recovery   
constructivism    redesignated FEP   
constructivist math    Regional Occupational Programs (ROPs)   
continuation high school    Regional Training Centers   
cooperative learning    resource specialist   
Core Knowledge    restructuring   
credential    rubric   
criterion-referenced test    School Accountability Report Card (SARC)   
curriculum    school board   
developmentally appropriate classroom    school improvement program (SIP)   
differentiated instruction    school site council (SSC)   
Direct Instruction    school-to-career program   
Discipline-Based Art Education    school-within-a-school   
divergent and convergent questions    selective admission   
dropout rate    self-contained classroom   
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)    self-directed instruction   
dual immersion    service learning   
East Valley Institute of Technology    sheltered English   
education code    site-based management   
education reform    special day class   
educationally disadvantaged youth (EDY)    special education   
emergency permit    Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE)   
English as a Second Language (ESL)    staff development   
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)    Standardized Testing and Reporting program   
English Language Development (ELD)    standards   
English Learner    Stanford Achievement Test, Ninth Edition (Stanford 9)   
Everyday Mathematics    Student Study Team (SST)   
Expected Schoolwide Learning Results (ESLRs)    student teacher   
Foxfire    student-centered learning   
full-time equivalent (FTE)    Success For All   
Fully English Proficient (FEP)    teacher preparations (preps)   
gateway assessment/indicator    team teaching   
Gifted and Talented Education (GATE)    thematic units   
graduation rate    Title I (Chapter I)   
hands-on learning    tracking   
Head Start    transfers in   
Healthy Start program    transfers out   
High Schools That Work    Waldorf school   
high-frequency words    whole language   
Homeschooling    whole math   
immersion    whole math instruction   
in-service    Writer's Workshop   
inclusion    year-round education   
independent school      
 
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