CPSY 4303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Comprehensive High School, Social Promotion, High Tech
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Module 7- contexts of development: school and achievement. Comprehensive high school: an educational institution that evolved during the first half of the 20th century, offering a varied curriculum and designed to meet the needs of a diverse population of adolescents, started in the 1920s. No child left behind act (2002) mandated that states ensure that all students, regardless of their economic circumstances, achieve academic proficiency. Requires schools to create and enforce academic standards through yearly testing. The social organization of schools: generally, smaller schools, although not necessarily smaller classes, are more effective than larger ones. Junior high school: an educational institution designed during the early era of public secondary education, in which young adolescents are schooled separately from older students. Learning disability: a difficulty with academic tasks that cannot be traced to an emotional problem or sensory dysfunction. Dyslexia: impaired ability in reading or spelling. Mainstreaming: the integration of adolescents who have educational handicaps into regular classrooms.
