curriculum |
the courses offered at a school or in a particular area of study. |
d |
a grade given for poor, or below average school work. [1/3 definitions] |
day care |
care during the day, in a home or special center, for babies or children too young for school. Some day care is designed for elderly or disabled people. |
department |
a separate part of a large organization, such as a government, school, or business. |
despite |
If you go to school despite feeling sick, you go to school even though you feel sick. You go anyway. If a team plays a big game despite missing its best player, the team plays even though the best player cannot play. It's a bad thing, but the team plays anyway. If you like someone despite the fact that they don't like you, you still like them even though they don't feel the same about you. |
different |
When two things are different, they are not the exact same thing. When you walk a different way to school from your sister, it means that you walk one way to school and she walks another. The paths to school are not the same paths. [1/2 definitions] |
diploma |
A diploma is a piece of paper from a school that says that you have finished your studies with success. |
direction |
A direction is a way to go, or a way to look or face. Up, down, right, left, east, west, this way, that way--these are some directions. In the mornings, a school bus full of students goes in the direction of a school. [1/3 definitions] |
directly |
If you go directly home after school, you go straight there. You don't go anywhere else before you go home. If you go to bed directly after brushing your teeth, you don't do anything between brushing your teeth and going to bed. [1/3 definitions] |
do1 |
If you are doing well at school, it means that you don't have any problems at school. Everything is fine. If your grandparents are doing well in their new home, they are not having any problems. They are probably happy. [1/9 definitions] |
during |
"During" means all through some period of time. If you don't go to school during the summer, it means that you don't go to school all through the summer. [1/2 definitions] |
early |
When something happens early, it happens at the beginning or in the first part of something. If you go to school early in the morning, it means that you go to school in the first part of the morning. [1/4 definitions] |
easy |
If you have an easy day in school, it means that you have a day with no trouble or worry. [1/4 definitions] |
educated |
having received much knowledge from teachers, books, or other sources of information, usually through studying in a school over a number of years. |
education |
Your education is all the knowledge you get through learning. The reason you go to school is to get education. [1/2 definitions] |
effect |
When something is in effect, it is active. If a rule of how to dress in school goes into effect tomorrow, it means that starting tomorrow you have to dress according to this rule. [1/6 definitions] |
elect |
When you elect to do something, you choose or decide from among different things that you could do. When you elect to ride the bus to school, it means that you make a decision to take the bus to school rather than go some other way. When you elect to do something, it is often an important choice that is reported to other people. [1/2 definitions] |
elementary |
having to do with the early years of school education. [1/2 definitions] |
elementary school |
a school for the first six to eight years of a child's education. |
else |
"Else" means different or other. Let's say you usually wear your red jacket to school but today you want to wear something different. This means that you want to wear something else. [1/4 definitions] |
enforce |
If the police enforce a law, they make people obey the law. They don't let them break it. In a school, it is the principal and the teachers who enforce the school rules. |