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

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early college n.

Also known as “early colleges,” middle colleges allow students to earn a high school diploma and two years of college credit within five years.
Such schools are designed to increase high school graduation rates and bolster college-readiness levels.

[English College Education] [full cite] (Feb. 27, 2007)

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)

excessing n. At the end of the school year, a committee led by one of Warley’s alleged protégés met to discuss moving some of its employees to other schools—a process called “excessing’ —because J.O. Wilson was over its budget. [English Education Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 3, 2009)

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)

Facebook degree n. The University of Salford is set to offer a MA/PgDip in Social Media—unofficially referred to as the “Facebook Degree.” [English Education Online New or Nonce] [full cite] (Jun. 21, 2009)

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)

freeway flyer n. Especially since the effects of Proposition 13 began to kick in with a vengeance, community colleges have become ever more dependent on cheap labor provided by part-time faculty, who are often known as “freeway flyers” because they must drive from campus to campus to make a living. Rules permit part-timers to carry only half a full schedule at any one campus; they make up the difference flying the freeway to distant colleges. [English Education Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 22, 2009)

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