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Eye-voice span (EVS)

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

Extracurricular (extraclass) activities

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

External degree

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

Extension programs

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

Expositions

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

Experiment in International Living (EIL)

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

Experience chart

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

Experience-based (experiential) learning

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Knowledge acquired by direct observation or participation in an event.

Exempted child

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A child of compulsory school age who...

Executive session

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

Executive education

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

Exchange program

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

Exceptional children

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

Excellence in Education programs

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

Evolution

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The concept that all living organisms develop continuously through a series of metamorphoses that progress from lower and simpler to higher and more complex forms, based on a process of adaptation to their external environment.

Everson v. Board of Education

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

Edward Everett (1794–1865)

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

Evangelism (evangelicalism)

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

Evangelical Alliance for the United States

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

Ethnic Heritage Program

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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.

Ethics

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

Establishment Clause

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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. . . .”

Essentialism

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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.

Essay test

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