The number of words which the eye perceives in advance of their evocation by the voice when a subject is reading aloud.

Planned activities organized and sanctioned by a school or college that bear no direct relationship to the academic curriculum.

A college degree awarded to students who successfully complete a prescribed course of study off campus...

Originally, any educational program that extends the reach of an educative institution beyond the formal curriculum...

Large, extended exhibitions of industrial, commercial and artistic products to educate the public and promote increased local, regional, national and international trade.

A cultural exchange program that takes groups of eight to 10 students for a semester of studying and living in a foreign country.

A display, in early primary school, on which teachers record, in large, easyto-read letters...

Knowledge acquired by direct observation or participation in an event.

A child of compulsory school age who...

A legitimate meeting of a public body, such as a school board, which is closed to the public.

A formal graduate school curriculum for midcareer executives. Although most executive education courses do not lead to degrees...

Any of a variety of programs involving the temporary transfer of a student or teacher to a school, college or university in another country.

Children who require special education because of characteristics that so deviate...

A series of programs established in 1982 by the U.S. Department of Education “to identify and publicly recognize unusually successful public schools...

A landmark 1946 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Ewing Township (New Jersey) Board of Education...

American Unitarian clergyman, educator, orator, statesman and governor of Massachusetts...

A relatively modern Anglo-American Protestant Christian proselytization movement that relies on the literal interpretation of the Bible...

The American branch for an international, interdenominational organization formed in London in 1846...

A federal program of grants to educational organizations for developing and distributing materials that teach about the contributions of different ethnic groups to the United States.

A branch of philosophy concerned with principles and norms of human behavior.

An abbreviated label for the first 10 words of the First Amendment of the Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. . . .”

A “BACK-TO-BASICS” educational movement started in the late 1920s by Teachers College Columbia University professor WILLIAM C. BAGLEY in response to growing neglect of traditional fields of study in public elementary and secondary schools.

Any subjective examination requiring the production of thoughtful prose to demonstrate command of a particular topic or subject.