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18 Cards in this Set
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Melting Pot
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an approach to receiving and educating immigrants based on the belief that immigrants would be most successful if they were able to assimilate into the dominate American culture
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Assimilation
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the absorbtion of an individual or smal group into the cultural tradition of a population or another group
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Elem & Secondary Education Act
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the federal govt's single largest investment in elem and secondary education. Including Title I originally passed in 1965 and periodically reauthorized by Congress, most recently in 01 as the NCLB Act
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Compensatory Education
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educational support to provide a more nearly equal educational oppurtunity for disadvantaged students through such activities as remedial instruction and early learning
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Brown v State Board of ED of topeka
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US supreme Court ruling in 1954 holding that segregated schools are inherently unequal
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LEP Limited English Proficiency
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a term used to describe students whose native language is not English and who have difficulty understanding and using English
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ELL-Engliish Language Learners
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students whose first language is other than English and who must learner English at school
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PL 94-142 the education for all handicapped children act
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A Federal Law that guaranteed a free and appropiate public education for all students w disabilities. In 1990 the name was changed to IDEA Individuals w Disabilities Education Act
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Inclusion
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the commitment to educate wach child, to the maxium extent appropriate, in the regular school and classroom rather than moving the children to separate classes or schools
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Race
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a physiological descriptor for people w a common ancestry & phyiscal characteristics
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Ethnicity
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shared history, traits and customs
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Culture
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shared charcteristics amoung a group of people such as lang, customs, political and economic interest and often religion that affect hoe they preceive and interact in the world
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Culturally responsive teaching
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a method of embracing students' cultural backgrounds by modifying classroom conditions or activities to include elements related to the students culture
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bilingual education
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education programs in which students of limited english proficiency attend classes taught in English as well as in their native language
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ESL
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a program in which English learners are assigned to mainstream classroom and then given specialized instruction usually in a resource room w a specially trained teacher
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mainstreaming
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the practice of placing special ed students and ELL in gen ed classes for at least part of the school day
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immersion
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programs for ELL in which the students are placed in language rich, mainstream classes w their fluent-english-speaking classmates
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sheltered immersion
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immersion programs in which the english used is simplified and the classroom consist of entirly ELL
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