Unit 2 Vocab #1

The percentage of students that continue on to the same school more than one year in a row

• retention rates

• resolution

• contextualize

• reliable

social standing of a group that measures education, income and jobs

• resilient

• socio-economic status

• retention rates

• resolution

The amount of years that you are required to attend by law as a minor

• inherent

• contextual

• abysmal

• compulsory education

a firm decision to do or not to do something

• stellar

• resolution

• hailed

• disparities

to consider something or to help others consider something in context

• retention rates

• resolution

• disparities

• contextualize

a difference in level or treatment; usually unfair

• disparities

• inherent

• verbalize

• resolution

the central unifying element of a story (ties it all together)

• cite

• central idea

• clarify

• concept

quote evidence in scholarly work

• cite

• clarify

• concept

• passive voice

show or prove right to be reasonable

• motive

• passive voice

• justify

• active voice

the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own

• participles

• impact

• plagiarism

• develop