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

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ho-wop n. Called ho-wop, the vocals are crooning and the beats smooth but the lyrics will not win any decency awards. Arguably the first song of its kind is Eamon Doyle’s F*** It (I Don’t Want You Back), a harsh break-up song liberally studded with swear words. [Education Entertainment Music] [full cite] (Jul. 14, 2004)

hothouse v. The practice known as “hothousing” has become common as the Los Angeles Unified School District accommodates delays in its $14 billion construction program.…Students at five of the schools will be “hothoused,” starting class Sept. 6 at another location until their campuses are ready to be occupied. Students at three schools will attend class on altered calendars so that construction can be completed. [English Architecture Education] [full cite] (Aug. 27, 2005)

Kelly hour n. Education Secretary Ruth Kelly will set out her personal vision for a £680 million programme to transform schools into community centres on Monday.…A senior Education Department source said the changes will be known as “Kelly hours”—just as teacher training days are called “Baker days” after Tory former minister Lord Baker. [English United Kingdom Education] [full cite] (Jun. 20, 2005)

lagniappe semester n. Tulane will be running a second spring term starting in mid-May (dubbed, in local parlance, a “Lagniappe Semester”) to keep students on track for graduation. [Lousiana English Education] [full cite] (Apr. 20, 2006)

learned stupidity n. This (learned stupidity) is a new term that we have coined at the WB. We try to teach children things that are beyond their age and when children fail to learn them we call them stupid. The fact is that our children are not stupid, it is we who are making them acquire stupidity. This is detrimental for them. [English Education New or Nonce] [full cite] (Mar. 24, 2007)

learning cottage n. Somehow, trailer (be it on a farm, or in a public school parking lot) just seems to lack esteemable associations. So now they’ve coined the term “learning cottage” to soften up the blow…at the same time I can’t help but to think “learning cell.” [English United States Education] [full cite] (Dec. 13, 2004)

learning cottage n. Photo Fifth-graders in Erica Allen’s class at Lockheed Elementary School place their book bags into plastic bins outside their “trailer,” which has been dubbed a “learning cottage.” [English United States Education] [full cite] (Dec. 14, 2004)

learning cottage n. Eight of the trailers—or “learning cottages,” as Fairfax parents and staff jokingly call them—house fourth-grade classes, four are third-grade classrooms, and the remaining ones are used for music and classes for gifted and disabled students. [English United States Education] [full cite] (Dec. 14, 2004)

learning cottage n. “The big joke around here is we call them ‘learning cottages,’” said Joines, who taught in the same trailer last year, her first in the system. [English United States Education] [full cite] (Dec. 14, 2004)

lexile v. Read 180, which Toscano calls the “Cadillac of reading programs,” employs what is called a lexiled reading model, meaning that each student reads a different text based on their own individual reading level. [English Arts & Literature Education] [full cite] (Aug. 15, 2007)

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