A choral group popular as an extracurricular activity at colleges and some secondary schools. Although some glee clubs occasionally include sacred music in their repertoires,
One of many organizations founded at the beginning of the 20th century as educative institutions for the benefit of adolescents when schools were closed.
American educator who, as first president of Johns Hopkins University, introduced the concepts of separate, freestanding graduate schools and research-oriented universities.
A quality of above-average intelligence, aptitude, cognitive ability, creativity, social skills or talent, usually identified either by direct observation or standardized testing.
The popular name for the Serviceman’s Readjustment Act, a law passed in 1944 that marked the beginning of the popularization of higher education and its transformation from a privilege for the wealthy elite to a basic right of all Americans, regardless of economic class.
One of the original 13 states and the fourth to join the Union, in 1788. Georgia planned to build state-supported schools in each county when it drafted its first constitution in 1777,
The science that delineates and describes the physical and cultural characteristics of the world. Taught for centuries as a separate subject in elementary and secondary schools,
Perennially one of America’s and the world’s largest private corporations and a pioneer in vocational education and the development of CORPORATION COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS.
Usually a reference to a peculiarly American, public high school, curricular program or “track,” offering a variety of “self-improvement” courses and rudimentary courses in English, mathematics, science and social studies.