A special certificate issued to high school graduates assuring prospective employers that the bearer has the basic skills needed to enter the workforce.
A private, nonprofit developer and publisher of standardized tests, which include the SCHOLASTIC ASSESSMENT TESTS (SATs), Graduate Record Examination (GRE)...
A nonprofit organization that provides several thousand subscriber school systems and educational agencies with independent educational research reports...
A nonprofit organization chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York as a clearinghouse of information on educational products for school districts and state educational agencies nationwide.
A broadly based educative institution founded in 1889 by the established and assimilated American Jewish community of German background to “Americanize” poor, East European Jewish immigrants.
The overall pedagogical doctrine governing an institution’s teaching methods, as opposed to EDUCATIONAL GOALS, which govern the ends those methods are designed to achieve.
A privately run organization—usually for-profit—that relies on traditional entrepreneurial methods of private industry to open and operate charter schools and/or manage regular public schools under contract.
In its broadest sense, the acquisition of knowledge, skills and values that permit an individual to function and make decisions perceived as self-enhancing.