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| the system of middle schools, junior high schools, and high schools |
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| comprehensive high school |
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| an educational institution that evolved during the first half of the twentieth century, offering a varied curriculum and designed to meet the needs of a diverse population of adolescents |
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| the practice of promoting students from one grade to the next automatically, regardless of their school performance |
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| thinking that involves analyzing, evaluating, and interpreting information, rather than simply memorizing it |
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| policies designed to improve achievement by holding schools and students to a predetermined set of standards measured by achievement tests |
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| public schools that have been given the autonomy to establish their own curricula and teach practices |
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| government-subsidized vouchers that can be used for private school tuition |
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| A get-tough approach to adolescent misbehavior that responds seriously or excessively to the first infraction |
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| subdivisions of the student body within large schools created to foster feelings of belongingness |
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| The interpersonal resources available to an adolescent or family |
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| Big fish-little Pond Effect |
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| Phenomenon whereby individuals who attend high school with high-achieving peers feel worse about themselves than comparably successful individuals with lower-achieving peers |
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| an educational institution designed during the early era of public secondary education, in which young adolescents are schooled separately from older adolescents |
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| Students who are unusually talented in some aspect of intellectual performance |
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| an educational institution housing seventh- and eighth-grade students along with adolescents who are one or two years older |
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| A difficulty with academic tasks that cannot be traced to an emotional problem or sensory dysfunction |
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| The integration of adolescents who have educational handicaps into regular classrooms |
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| the grouping of students, according to ability, into different levels of classes within the same school grade |
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