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

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melt n. Typically, university officials expect about 9 to 10 percent of students to change their minds and go elsewhere—a process known as “melt”—before school starts. [English Education] [full cite] (Aug. 5, 2006)

middle 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)

Mostly White College n. The Free Lance-Star rightly criticized the University of Mary Washington for its abysmal record of minority recruitment, especially among African-American students.…But there’s really not that much difference, when all is said and done, between a place whose nickname was “Mostly White College,” and the institution some have already taken to calling the “University of Mostly White.” [Virginia English Education] [full cite] (Mar. 25, 2005)

old-head n. A lot of old-heads, or upperclassmen, in the Marching Storm say they want to teach music or become band directors themselves. [English Education Slang Acronym] [full cite] (Sep. 8, 2007)

opportunity room n. He had brought a cheat sheet to class and gotten caught. Now the students were sitting in judgment of him.…The six students deliberated and decided the offender deserved three days of in-school suspension, euphemistically called a trip to the “Opportunity Room.” [English Education Jargon] [full cite] (Mar. 6, 2008)

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)

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