One of the early BACK-TO-BASICS programs, introduced in the early 1960s in the Amidon Elementary School in Washington, D.C., by Superintendent of Schools Carl F. Hansen.

One of America’s most academically selective colleges and a pioneer in curriculum reform.

A national service organization in which volunteers are rewarded with credits of nearly $5,000 a year toward their college or university education.

A national strategy proposed by President George H. W. Bush’s administration to improve the quality of American public schools and make U.S. pupils “first in the world” by the year 2000.

A group of American colleges and universities either based overseas or operating overseas branch campuses of their U.S. facilities.

One of the many groups formed during the evangelical crusade of the 1820s and 1830s to convert Americans to Christianity.

A federal law that expanded protection for the disabled with respect to employment opportunities and public services...

A wide-ranging, interdepartmental, college-level curriculum focusing on the history, political science, economics, sociology, science, literature, art, music, religion and culture, and their effects on the American nation and its society.

A clublike association formed in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin and nine other intellectuals to discuss “morals, politics or natural philosophy” and virtually every other area of human concern.

A language of the severely deaf that uses specific finger, hand and wrist positions to signal letters, sounds, syllables and words.

An unincorporated territory of the United States in the South Pacific Ocean, acquired by treaty with Germany and England in 1899.

One of two competing societies made up of America’s founding fathers and leading intellectuals.

One of four great American museums whose founding after the Civil War marked a new era in the development of museums as public, educative institutions.

One of the many white, northern religious organizations that founded mission schools throughout the South to educate former slaves in the decades after the Civil War.

The largest, best and most influential of the voluntary educational institutions that sprang up in towns and cities across America in the first half of the 19th century.

The oldest and largest organization of professional librarians in the world. Founded in 1876 by about one hundred scholars, its early years were inextricably tied to that of MELVIL DEWEY.

A periodical edited by education pioneer HENRY BARNARD over a 27-year span from 1855 to 1881, it was the world’s most important education periodical of its day, read by scholars everywhere.

The reshaping, through education, of the human character, regardless of national origins, into one uniquely suited for self-governance within the framework of the Constitution and laws of the United States.

By far the most widely used of the thousands of popular examples of didactic literature that flooded the American colonies during the 18th century.

A group of 30 federally subsidized, tribal-run colleges serving about 14,000 American Indians and Alaskan natives from more than 250 tribes in 12 states...

Any of the people native to North America when Christopher Columbus first landed in the Western Hemisphere.

One of many national organizations that arose from the evangelical fervor that swept the United States during the half-century following the Revolutionary War.

A voluntary organization that provides grants to American students to study abroad and to foreign students to study in the United States.

An international labor union for teachers.