Italian physician who pioneered a new, controversial but enormously successful educational method for teaching young children.

The 41st state to enter the Union, in 1889.

Fifth president of the United States and the last of five successive presidents to ask for constitutional authority for a national system of education.

A flexible method of arranging classroom time as a multiple of unconventionally small units of time.

In American education, the study of those languages other than English that are currently spoken, written and read in the world’s industrialized and economically influential nations and widely used internationally.

An educational term of the 1920s that referred to the teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution and other “modern” elements of science, social science and history that apparently contradicted Scriptural doctrine.

Elementary schools attached to teacher-training schools...

Any aid or trick for committing information to memory.

The ability or tendency to perform some activities with one side of the body and some with...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2000 that a federal program that placed computers...

A 1938 U.S.

The 24th state to join the Union, in 1821.

The 20th state to enter the Union, in 1817, and, historically, a state with the lowest educational standards in the United States.

In the United States, organized efforts by religious (usually Protestant) leaders, their churches and their followers to provide academic instruction while simultaneously converting students to Christianity.

Jargon for oral reading error.

A disability that causes the individual to perceive some letters ...

Historically in the United States the formal instruction of members of racial, ethnic and national groups other than the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who, for the first four centuries of European life in North America, constituted a majority of the population.

A pioneer effort developed at the University of Minnesota...

A 1984 U.S.

The 32nd state to join the Union, in 1858, and from its origins one of the states most dedicated to high-quality public education.

An obsolete battery of standardized tests measuring reading, writing and computational skills, skills in language arts and, often, other academic skills, of children from kindergarten through twelfth grades.

A learning or behavior disorder traceable to a specific, albeit minor, lesion in the brain.

An unconventionally short course of study covering a limited amount of material...