http://american-education.org/ ru American education Adult Education DataLife Engine http://american-education.org/2371-war-on-poverty.html http://american-education.org/2371-war-on-poverty.html A far-reaching program of federal legislation developed in the mid-1960s by the Lyndon B.

]]> admin Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:04:08 -0600 http://american-education.org/2370-ward-lester-frank-18411913.html http://american-education.org/2370-ward-lester-frank-18411913.html American sociologist and educator, considered by many the “father” of modern sociology.

]]> admin Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:01:17 -0600 http://american-education.org/2365-v-12.html http://american-education.org/2365-v-12.html A World War II, U.S. Navy program that permitted college students drafted into the military to finish their undergraduate and graduate education before entering military service.

]]> admin Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:49:43 -0600 http://american-education.org/2364-vocational-rehabilitation.html http://american-education.org/2364-vocational-rehabilitation.html The training orretraining of the physically or mentally disabledto adapt their capabilities to appropriatejobs in the workplace.

]]> admin Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:40:51 -0600 http://american-education.org/2363-vocational-education-act-of-1963.html http://american-education.org/2363-vocational-education-act-of-1963.html A federal law that called for expansion of existing high school vocational education programs, the creation of new ones and the creation of workstudy programs available for full-time vocational education students.

]]> admin Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:39:13 -0600 http://american-education.org/2362-vocational-education.html http://american-education.org/2362-vocational-education.html Instruction and training in preparation for entry into crafts and trades not requiring a college degree for entrylevel positions and ultimate career advancement. Vocational education in U.S.

]]> admin Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:37:48 -0600 http://american-education.org/2361-vocational-counseling.html http://american-education.org/2361-vocational-counseling.html The process of providing advice and guidance to help individuals make successful career choices.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:43:30 -0600 http://american-education.org/2360-vocabulary-development.html http://american-education.org/2360-vocabulary-development.html The growth, through a variety of exercises and activities, of the number of words an individual can spell, define and use routinely in conversation and writing.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:40:57 -0600 http://american-education.org/2359-visual-impairment.html http://american-education.org/2359-visual-impairment.html In education, blindness or partial sightedness, with blindness defined as a condition requiring...

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:39:15 -0600 http://american-education.org/2358-visual-discrimination.html http://american-education.org/2358-visual-discrimination.html The ability to recognizedifferences in form between objects, letters,numbers and words. Visual discriminationis essential to successful mastery of reading andcalculating skills.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:38:14 -0600 http://american-education.org/2357-vista.html http://american-education.org/2357-vista.html An acronym for Volunteers in Service to America, a federal program established in 1964 as part of President Lyndon B.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:36:49 -0600 http://american-education.org/2356-visiting-teacher.html http://american-education.org/2356-visiting-teacher.html An archaic term for a school social worker—invented, apparently, to couch the social worker’s...

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:35:44 -0600 http://american-education.org/2355-virtual-classroom.html http://american-education.org/2355-virtual-classroom.html On-line course offerings designed for elementary and secondary school students at schools unable to provide such courses independently.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:34:30 -0600 http://american-education.org/2354-virgin-islands.html http://american-education.org/2354-virgin-islands.html A self-governing territory of the United States, consisting of three islands and 50 largely uninhabited islets in the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:33:16 -0600 http://american-education.org/2353-virginia-commonwealth-of.html http://american-education.org/2353-virginia-commonwealth-of.html Tenth of the original 13 states to join the Union, in 1788. 

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:32:17 -0600 http://american-education.org/2352-violence.html http://american-education.org/2352-violence.html In education, the use of force by a student, with or without a weapon, to cause injury to another student, teacher or member of the school staff.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:29:04 -0600 http://american-education.org/2351-vincent-john-heyl-18321920.html http://american-education.org/2351-vincent-john-heyl-18321920.html American religious leader and educator who established a uniform Sunday-school curriculum for American Protestant churches.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:26:23 -0600 http://american-education.org/2350-viewbooks.html http://american-education.org/2350-viewbooks.html Descriptive brochures issued by most private secondary schools and almost all colleges and graduate schools, with extensive photographs and information about their institutions.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:23:44 -0600 http://american-education.org/2349-vicarious-learning.html http://american-education.org/2349-vicarious-learning.html A second- or third-hand learning process, whereby an individual learns from the experiences or purported knowledge of others.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:22:33 -0600 http://american-education.org/2348-vesting.html http://american-education.org/2348-vesting.html A guarantee that an employee will receive all accumulated retirement benefits at the normal retirement age, even if the employee does not remain with the organization until then.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:21:09 -0600 http://american-education.org/2347-vernonia-school-district-47j-v-acton.html http://american-education.org/2347-vernonia-school-district-47j-v-acton.html A1995 United States Supreme Court decisionupholding an Oregon high school’s right torequire random urinalysis drug tests as a conditionfor participating in interscholastic athletics.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:19:35 -0600 http://american-education.org/2346-vernacular-learning.html http://american-education.org/2346-vernacular-learning.html In education, a highly controversial approach to inner-city classroom teaching, using the vernacular (from the Latin verna, meaning household-born slave) or language of the streets, with which most children are more familiar.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:18:35 -0600 http://american-education.org/2345-vermont.html http://american-education.org/2345-vermont.html The 14th state to join the Union, in 1791, after 14 years as an independent republic.

]]> admin Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:16:48 -0600 http://american-education.org/2344-venture-educational-enterprise-funds.html http://american-education.org/2344-venture-educational-enterprise-funds.html A college- or university-sponsored partnership that sequesters a percentage of the institution’s endowment as “seed capital” for profit-making companies to commercialize discoveries emerging from the institution’s laboratories. 

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