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ability grouping
independent study
Academic Performance Index (API)
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Accelerated Schools Project
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
instructional aide
accreditation
interdisciplinary
active learning
International Baccalaureate schools
adequate yearly progress
language arts
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leveled reading books
alternative assessment
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alternative schools
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magnet school
Arizona Department of Education
mainstreaming
Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards
manipulatives
at-risk student
Math Counts
attendance area
Measure of Academic Progress
authentic assessment
mixed grouping
average class size
Montessori
average daily attendance (ADA)
multi-age class
back-to-basics
multicultural education
benchmark
multiple intelligences
bilingual
national percentile rank
Bilingual Advisory Council (BAC)
norm-referenced test
bilingual education
open enrollment
block schedule
outcomes
California Basic Education Skills Test (CBEST)
parochial school
California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS)
peer resource program
California Department of Education (CDE)
performance assessment
categorical funds
phonemic awareness
certificated employee
phonics
charter holder
planning period
charter school
portfolio
class size reduction
private school
classified employee
Proposition 13
Coalition for Essential Schools (CES)
Proposition 227
Collaborative Literacy Intervention Project (CLIP)
pullout program
Comer School Development Program
pupil services
Conditions of Learning
pupil-teacher ratio
conflict resolution
Reading Recovery
constructivism
redesignated FEP
constructivist math
Regional Occupational Programs (ROPs)
continuation high school
Regional Training Centers
cooperative learning
resource specialist
Core Knowledge
restructuring
credential
rubric
criterion-referenced test
School Accountability Report Card (SARC)
curriculum
school board
developmentally appropriate classroom
school improvement program (SIP)
differentiated instruction
school site council (SSC)
Direct Instruction
school-to-career program
Discipline-Based Art Education
school-within-a-school
divergent and convergent questions
selective admission
dropout rate
self-contained classroom
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)
self-directed instruction
dual immersion
service learning
East Valley Institute of Technology
sheltered English
education code
site-based management
education reform
special day class
educationally disadvantaged youth (EDY)
special education
emergency permit
Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE)
English as a Second Language (ESL)
staff development
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
Standardized Testing and Reporting program
English Language Development (ELD)
standards
English Learner
Stanford Achievement Test, Ninth Edition (Stanford 9)
Everyday Mathematics
Student Study Team (SST)
Expected Schoolwide Learning Results (ESLRs)
student teacher
Foxfire
student-centered learning
full-time equivalent (FTE)
Success For All
Fully English Proficient (FEP)
teacher preparations (preps)
gateway assessment/indicator
team teaching
Gifted and Talented Education (GATE)
thematic units
graduation rate
Title I (Chapter I)
hands-on learning
tracking
Head Start
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Healthy Start program
transfers out
High Schools That Work
Waldorf school
high-frequency words
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Homeschooling
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immersion
whole math instruction
in-service
Writer's Workshop
inclusion
year-round education
independent school