Education Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Citations in the Category Education

Education, elementary, middle, secondary schools; universities, colleges, teachers, students, etc. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

(5/18 pages) « First < 3 4 5 6 7 > Last »

educanto n. What Mr. Weaver seems to care about most is spending. Or, as he calls it in pure educanto, inputs. [ Language English Subject Education] [full cite] (Dec. 23, 2005)

exit exam n. Congress has enacted a federal school reform law known as No Child Left Behind that requires every state to test students in grades three-through-eight in math and English/language arts as a way of measuring national student achievement. That law also requires states to give standardized tests to high school students often known as “exit exams.” [English Education] [full cite] (Feb. 3, 2008)

expo n. Another problem is the over-reliance of some students on what is called expo- by which is meant possibility of having access to the examination scripts before the date of examination, which does not always happen. [English Nigeria Education] [full cite] (Nov. 10, 2006)

five and fly n. People seemed to agree with the outspoken professor, whose campaign slogan, Five and Fly, became a state catch phrase (“You come here for five years, rip us off and fly away”). [English Education] [full cite] (May. 31, 2006)

five and fly n. As West Point’s academic reputation has improved, more and more graduates are serving their mandatory five years, then leaving the army: five-and-fly, as it’s known. In essence, the government is spending incredible sums of money to train intelligent and capable soldiers through this four-year university program, but increasingly the return is only five years of service. [English Education Military] [full cite] (May. 31, 2006)

five and fly n. Hamm, of the Air Force Academy, countered that the attitude of quitting after the required five years—known as “five and fly”—was “a minority view.…One of the reasons for the exodus now is the airlines’ hiring.” [English Education Military] [full cite] (May. 31, 2006)

freshmore n. “We’re really focusing harder now on the freshmen and sophomores so they don’t turn into what’s called ‘freshmores,’” he said, referring to students in their second year of high school without enough credits to take a sophomore curriculum. [English Education Youth Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 6, 2007)

fro-co n. We were ready for Camp Yale 2006. Sophomore year was going to be sick—all the debauchery of freshman year and more. No more boring meetings with college masters, no more fro-cos telling us to get up from the bathroom floor and head to DUH, and a whole new freshman class to meet and greet. [English Education Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 15, 2006)

ghost professorship n. Assembly Bill (AB) 1413, the California State University Governance Reform Act authored by Assemblymember Portantino, would eliminate the practice of “ghost professorships” by requiring all CSU executives who are compensated to teach a class to actually perform the work they are paid to do. [California English Education New or Nonce] [full cite] (Oct. 4, 2007)

gov-jock n. Derogatory terms like “gov-jocks” get thrown around as if athletes were unable to fulfill the requirements of any other program; this is insulting both to government concentrators and athletes alike. [ Language English Subject Education] [full cite] (Sep. 28, 2005)

(5/18 pages) « First < 3 4 5 6 7 > Last »