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

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P-school n. Created in the 1960s, when pregnant girls were such pariahs that they were forced to leave school until their babies were born, the city school system’s four pregnancy schools—or P-schools, as they are obliquely referred to—have lived on, their population dwindling to just 323 students from 1,500 in the late 1960s. [New York City English Education] [full cite] (Jun. 4, 2007)

paper cert n. He bragged that his pupils are definitely not what he called “paper certs,” an expression meaning book-smart but lacking in practical experience. [ Language English Subject Education Technology] [full cite] (Oct. 8, 2005)

parentariat n. At least five common factors seem to be driving the rise of the parentariat and its new centrality. Demographically, they are the best-educated generation of parents we have ever had. As a correlation, they are also the most independent. [English Education] [full cite] (Oct. 10, 2004)

pass the trash v. phr. Offending teachers sometimes get help landing another teaching job from former bosses. The practice is so well known among educators they refer to it by name. They call it “passing the trash.” [English Education Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 7, 2006)

pass the trash v. phr. The reporting law is an attempt to stop the practice known as “passing the trash,” in which districts let problem teachers quietly move to another district. The law does not allow a troubled teacher to resign “for personal reasons” or for a district to conduct only bare-bones employment verification. [English Education Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 17, 2007)

pisshead n. Pissheads—Pissheads are the sophomores. Their main function is to train the Fish. Again, I don’t know where the name came from. As the enforcers, Pissheads are generally disliked by the Fish. [English Education] [full cite] (Feb. 15, 2005)

pop n. A paddle was not easy to find, so he placed a special order with a cabinetmaker and outfitted a few staff members. They delivered a total of 535 paddlings—or “pops,” as they call them—to about 150 students last year. Parents consented first. [English Education] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2006)

psycho single n. When my freshman year came to an end in May 1981, I packed up my remnants from the “psycho single” I had been assigned—a single dorm room reserved for emergency security risks—and returned to L.A. [English College Education Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 10, 2007)

pupil passport n. The rest of the substance of Mr Cameron’s announcement lies in the abrupt axing of education vouchers, or “pupil passports” as he called them when, a mere eight months ago, he extolled their virtues in the Tory manifesto. [ Language English Subject Education] [full cite] (Jan. 12, 2006)

push out rate n. The dropout rate, or more accurately the “push out rate,” for Indians is 250 percent higher than it is for the general population. [English Education] [full cite] (Nov. 8, 2007)

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