This is an essential guide for educators, administrators, policymakers, and the media. Glossaries are dynamic expressions of current language usage. Education has changed dramatically in recent years, and so must also the language used to describe and define them. We believe this glossary is useful for a wider field of educators promoting student success. This glossary provides precise language and definitions to use when communicating with peers and more effectively influencing administrators, legislators, and the media.
1. Definition: It has too frequently been used as a code for identifying another person of being from a different culture or race other than their own. Increasingly inaccurate through a higher rate of children born with parents of DIVERSE racial backgrounds. 2. Compare with BINARY CLASSIFICATION OF PEOPLE, DEFICIT LANGUAGE, DIVERSE STUDENT, DIVERSITY, MAJORITY/MINORITY STUDENT, STEREOTYPE THREAT, STIGMA, STUDENT HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED, and STUDENT MARGINALIZED.