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Comprehensive High School |
The most common form of high school in the United States, designed to offer a range of preparation programs, including college preparation and vocational education. |
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Culture |
A group that shares beliefs about what is right and wrong, and what is good and bad; it also includes the dominant ideas, stories and myths, artistic works, social habits, organizations, and language of the group. |
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Democratic Reconstructionists |
Subscribers to an educational perspective that focuses on developing students who are prepared to make positive changes in democracy. |
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Economic Reconstructionists |
Subscribers to an educational perspective or motivation that focuses on developing students who take a critical stance toward the dominant social and economic status quo. |
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Education |
The process by which humans develop their minds, their skills, and their character. It is a lifelong process marked by continual development and change. |
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Effective Schools |
Schools that provide a significantly better education (usually measured by student test scores) for a much larger percentage of their students than do other schools serving similar student populations. |
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School Cultures |
The prevailing mores, values, and rituals that permeate a school. |
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Schooling |
Formal instruction typically conducted in an institution, adhering to standardized practices. |
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Social Reconstructionists |
Proponents of the theory of education that schools and teachers need to engage in the restructuring and reforming of society to eradicate its ills and shortcomings. |
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Socialization |
The general process of social learning whereby children learn the many thins they must now to become acceptable members of society. |
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Society |
A grouping of individuals bound together by a variety of connections, such as shared geographic space, similar racial features, or a shared culture. |
