A centrally located school offering primarily or exclusively a curriculum of courses and training that prepare students for work in at least one of five different skills or crafts.

A college-level interdepartmental study of a specific geographical area of the world or specific nation.

Italian priest, philosopher and teacher, whose “Thomist” philosophy remains the heart of all education in Roman Catholic schools the world over.

The degree of success or failure of a specific instructional technique and program (treatment) for a student at a particular aptitude level.

Any of a variety of systems for evaluating an individual’s ability to learn.

The ability to learn.

An inability to perform specific voluntary muscular movements, such as speaking (verbal) or using classroom materials (nonverbal), even in the absence of any evidence of paralysis.

A formal vocational training program in which students learn the skills for a particular trade on the job—usually under the tutelage of a master craftsman.

A curriculum of academic courses taught and learned by using new knowledge to solve immediate, practical problems.

A 19th-century term used by psychologists to describe the mental process by which individuals evaluate new knowledge...

An inability to understand words and say them.

In education, those state laws that bar striking by public employees such as teachers, administrators and staff at state-run elementary and secondary schools and colleges and universities.

The hatred of Jews.

The first completely nonsectarian, coeducational college and the first to integrate off-campus work and practical education with academic classroom education.

A succession of laws, usually enacted in southern states, that make it illegal to teach the theory of evolution.

A learning disorder characterized by a consistent inability to recall names of common, well-known objects or persons.

A charitable foundation established in 1989 by publishing-broadcasting magnate Walter H. Annenberg to underwrite a variety of educational projects.

The popular name for the United States Naval Academy...

A teacher’s accumulated written descriptions of student behavior.

The art and science of teaching adults, as opposed to PEDAGOGY, the art and science of teaching children.

One of the first and most distinguished of the theological seminaries in the American colonies.

A system of popular, practical education in Glasgow, Scotland, and probably the model for Josiah Holbrook’s AMERICAN LYCEUM.

In American education, a term referring only to Hebrew, Greek and Latin, which together with the study of classical and biblical literature were required elements of the curriculum for Christian gentlemen in colonial grammar schools, academies and colleges.

A commonly used question on standardized tests to measure scholastic aptitude.