This book has been designed to provide professional educators, parents, and college students with educational terms, concepts, issues, strategies, and information critical to understanding today’s classroom. Containing over 10,000 definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations provides valuable information in areas such as the World Wide Web and computers, legal issues and responsibilities, literacy development, developmental and educational psychology terminology, key mathematical concepts and tables and key bilingual terms in the field.APPENDICES: Cognitive Approach – Detective Q Squirt. Abbreviations in Education. Assessment Terms. Federal Legislation and Milestones. Supreme Court Decisions Related to Education. Technology for Individuals with Hearing/Vision Impairments. Math Facts for Teachers. Montessori Terms for Educators. Piaget Cognitive Development Terms. Legal Terms/Issues Related to Education. Mainstreaming/Inclusion. Philosophical Terminology. Mathematics Action-Research Classroom-Planning Steps (MARCS) and MAPP. Tests and Measurements for Professionals. Computers Appendix. Sample Individualized Education Program (IEP). Literacy Activities.