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| comprehensive high school |
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| 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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| 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 |
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| Subscribers to an education perspective that focuses on developing students who are prepared to make positive changes in a democracy. |
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| economic reconstructionists |
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| 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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| 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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| Schools that provide a significantly better education (usually measured by student test scores) for much larger percentages of their students than do most schools serving similar student populations. |
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| The prevailing mores, values, and rituals that permeate a school. |
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| Formal instruction typically conducted in an institution, adhering to standardized practices. |
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| social reconstructionists |
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| Proponents of the theory of education that schools and teachers need to engage in the reconstructing and reforming of society to eradicate its ills and shortcomings. |
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| The general process of social learning whereby children learn the many things they must know to become acceptable members of society. |
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| A grouping of individuals bound together by a variety of connections, such as shared geographic space, similar racial features, or a shared culture. |
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