US Educational Terms Glossary (Garland Green)

National Assessment of Educational Progress

National Association for the Education of Young Children

National Association for State Boards of Education

New American Schools Development Corporation

This award honors public and private K–12 schools that are academically superior or that demonstrate dramatic gains in student achievement.

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

National Center on Adult Literacy

National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education

National Center for Educational Statistics

Signed into law by President Bush in 2002, No Child Left Behind sets performance guidelines for all schools and also stipulates what must be included in accountability reports to parents. It mandates annual student testing, includes guidelines for underperforming schools, and requires states to train all teachers and assistants to be "highly qualified".

North Center Mathematics and Science Consortium

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium

National Council of Teachers of English

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

National Education Association

The teaching of highly abstract and conceptual math which was popular during the early 1960s.

National Governors Association

• An assessment designed to discover how an individual student s performance or test result compares to that of an appropriate peer group. (Compare to criterion-referenced assessment.)
  
  
• An assessment in which an individual or group's performance is compared with a larger group. Usually the larger group is representative of a cross-section of all US students. (Ed Source)
  

National Staff Development Council

National Science Teachers Association

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory