US Educational Terms Glossary (Garland Green)

Regional centers or agencies established by some state governments to provide needed services assistance and information to local schools and districts.

A rigorous college preparation course of study that leads to examinations for highly motivated high school students. Students can earn college credit from many universities if their exam scores are high enough. (Ed Source)

A worldwide network of networks that allows participants in different electronic networks to share information transfer files access news and communicate through electronic mail.

The term refers to funds that schools get for students who are not learning at grade level. They can be used to fund before-school or afterschool programs or to pay for materials and instructors.

A program that takes students into the workplace to learn about careers through one-day orientations or more extensive internships to see how the skills learned in school relate to the workplace.

School districts with boundaries that cross county lines. (Ed Source)

The Northeast and Islands Laboratory at Brown University.

Another term for English curriculum. The focus is on reading, speaking, listening, and writing skills.

Classroom in which students are encouraged to choose their own learning goals and projects. This approach is based on the belief that students have a natural inclination to learn learn better when they work on real or authentic tasks benefit from interacting with diverse groups of people and learn best when teachers understand and value the difference in how each student learns.

A principle built on the idea that quality is of higher importance than quantity. It is reflected in instruction that guides students to focus on fewer topics investigated in greater depth with teachers performing the task of prioritizing subjects as well as specific skills within those subjects.