bitch barbie n.— «One 14-year-old described how, when walking in school alone, he would worry that he had a lopsided walk and try to rectify it. Others felt that they were being monitored by the ultra-cool pupils the academics refer to as...
wraparound adj.— «Bergantino said the Lacoochee area needs what she can provide: an educational program that encompasses not just reading and writing, but also job readiness and child care. “I refer to what we do as wraparound...
tombstoning n.— «Sen. Gloria Romero had one demand if she was going to let legislation to provide mayoral control of the Los Angeles schools get out of the Senate last year. It had to have her name on it. And so the Legislature passed the...
GONGO n.— «Academics debate how to modernise major social, educational and cultural organisations, referred to as GONGOS (government-organised NGOs).» —“In Search of Acceptable Cooperation” by...
sport candy n.— «The programme really does get kids to put their crisps down and get off the sofa to dance, leap and sing. It’s a bit like an educational aerobics-cum-healthy eating class. Scheving is a former European aerobics champion...
cinema jazz n.— «The same goes for moving pictures, whether it’s the grainy old educational clips or the handcrafted abstract strips with which the trio create, and in fact improvise to a degree, a luminous collage of loops and layers...