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

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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)

line-jumping n. Then the discussion may also trigger talking about the unofficial, but well acknowledged move by parents living out in the county to have their children enrolled in the Starkville school system. The city district introduces students to more demographically diverse classrooms with access to programs in art, music, advanced placement classes and other perks not available to students in the shrinking 900-student Oktibbeha County School District. In fact, the act of enrolling county students in the Starkville School District is so pervasive, everyone just refers to it by its nickname—“line-jumping.” [English Education Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 2, 2007)

looping n. Having a teacher stay with a class for more than a year—or looping, as it is known—is on the rise. [English Education] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2005)

looping n. Looping is a practice which allows single-grade teachers to remain with the same class for a period of two or more years. [English Education] [full cite] (Jul. 16, 2005)

looping n. In a multiage (two or three grade levels mixed together) or looping classroom (single graded, but teacher moves with entire class up to next grade), students may stay with the same teacher for two or three years. [English Education] [full cite] (Jul. 16, 2005)

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