The predecessor institution of the modern, tax-supported, American public elementary school, which every child in the school district may attend free of charge.
An obsolete term referring to the basic subjects of an elementary school curriculum, including such branches as English, arithmetic, science, history, music, art, and so on.
A standardized college application originally developed by a group of about a dozen midwestern and eastern colleges and universities to ease the clerical burden on college applicants.
A 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision that New York State could reimburse private and parochial schools for the costs of state-mandated testing and other activities.
A NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION group whose 1918 report, Cardinal Principles of Education, served as a blueprint for reorganizing comprehensive public high schools.
A commission appointed by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings to determine the skills college students should be acquiring—writing, critical thinking...
A commission of academic leaders, created in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt to study the deteriorating quality of life in rural America and recommend ways for remedying the situation.
The act of beginning; a term used since the 13th century for ceremonies in which academic diplomas or degrees are conferred on students graduating to and...
Moravian educator, whose Orbis sensualium pictus (1659) revolutionized the teaching of Latin and became a standard grammar school text in England and the colonies.