A vague, “catchall” phrase referring to the difficulty or inability of an individual to absorb new information through normal sensory stimuli.
A vague, “catchall” phrase referring to the difficulty or inability of an individual to absorb new information through normal sensory stimuli.
In education, an evaluation mechanism for determining the distribution of student scores and grades, with the percentile, on a scale of 1 to 100, representing the percentage of scores or grades at or below that level.
A landmark 1971 U.S. Supreme Court case that extended universal public education laws to retarded children as a constitutional right.
The second state to join the Union and, from the arrival of its first settlers, a wellspring of educational institutions.
Quaker leader, founder of Pennsylvania and advocate of a religious toleration that permitted the establishment of schools throughout Pennsylvania early on.
A federal government program introduced in the 1973–1974 academic year to provide grants to encourage students who have not received their bachelor’s degrees to pursue post-secondary education.
The instruction of one or more students by another student.
Renowned American portrait painter and engraver and, in 1786, founder of the first museum in the Americas, Peale’s Museum in Philadelphia.
English author and teacher whose book The Compleat Gentlemen (1615) detailed a curriculum that became the standard for private schools and academies in the American colonies (and later the United States) through the early 20th century.
ederal government program through which Americans may volunteer in public service work overseas.
An easy-to-administer, easy-to-score intelligence test, widely used as a reliable indicator of vocabulary development.
A philanthropic trust established in 1867 by Massachusetts financier and railroad magnate GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY to build schools and promote education in the south.
Massachusetts-born railroad magnate, financier and philanthropist whose financial gifts were largely directed toward education.
Pioneer American educator and founder of one of the first American kindergartens and one of the first schools to admit girls.
Free schools for educating the children of the poor from the end of the colonial era in America through the first century of independence.
In language education, a manyfaceted term referring to the combination of verbal elements to produce a complete message.
Attorney, author, noted early colonial educator and founder of the community of Germantown, Pennsylvania. Born and educated in Germany, he practiced law there until a chance meeting in 1682 with William Penn, who interested him in the American colonies.
A system of scoring student academic work on the basis of whether the work was satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
Formal instruction consisting of less than a conventional, full-time course load at secondary school or college.
Categories of words, grouped according to their functions in phrases and sentences.
A full-time elementary school operated by a church parish for parish children and combining traditional secular with religious instruction.
American educator acknowledged by JOHN DEWEY as the “father of modern education.”
An all-but-archaic term referring to regulations and restrictions governing living conditions and visiting privileges permitted to the opposite sex in boarding school, college and university dormitories.