A teaching technique that encourages elementary and secondary school students to study at their own individual pace rather than in lockstep with others in the class.
A specific, individualized program of education that schools must plan and implement for each child enrolled in special education—according to federal law.
A free residential educational institution administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for AMERICAN INDIAN children too isolated and distant to attend existing reservation or off-reservation day schools.
Index salary scheduleA list of ratios relating the salaries of school teaching and nonteaching personnel to an arbitrarily selected unit figure of 1.00 for one member of the staff.
A standardized battery of tests used by several hundred private, American INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS to test verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, reading comprehension, mathematics proficiency and writing skills.
A program that provides federal funding for construction of essential services, such as schools, in areas whose economies have been hurt by the presence of a military installation.
A foreign-language teaching technique that dispenses with translation and forces students, from their first day, to hear and speak nothing (and see no words) other than the language under study.
The number of footcandles, or degrees of light intensity, suggested by the American Institute of Architects for proper lighting in different areas of a school and for different types of activities.
An inability to read or write; according to the national Adult Literacy Survey released in the 1990s, between 21% and 23% of the adult citizens of the United States are affected.
A unique organization that provides educational and social support services to inner-city children whose classes have been “adopted” educationally by corporations and wealthy individuals.