American historian and educator; cited in most reference works as the “father of Negro history in the United States.” Born of former slaves in Virginia, he grew up in such dire poverty that his formal schooling was postponed until he was almost 20.
American historian and educator; cited in most reference works as the “father of Negro history in the United States.” Born of former slaves in Virginia, he grew up in such dire poverty that his formal schooling was postponed until he was almost 20.
Any of a variety of liberal arts courses that focus on the roles, history, productive and creative output and contributions of women.
The formal instruction of women—until relatively recently, limited to the “domestic arts” and centering around skills needed for nurturing infants and maintaining the household.
A federal law that made women permanent participants in all branches of the U.S. Armed Services.
A complex 1977 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of an Ohio law authorizing various forms of state aid to private schools.
Scottish- born Presbyterian minister, educator, president of the College of New Jersey (now, Princeton) for 25 years and the only clergyman to sign the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
A vague term, which, in education, can mean everything from a student’s transfer to another school, to a leave due to illness, forced expulsion or dropping out.
A 1972 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that gave the Amish religious sect a rare exemption from state compulsory education laws.
Americanborn heir to one of the most preeminent colonial families, and the most distinguished teacher, scholar and scientist of the colonial or provincial era.
One of the many innovative educational experiments that American teachers and school administrators were attempting in the wake of JOHN DEWEY’s seminal work in the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LABORATORY SCHOOL.
A battery of tests to measure acuity of musical hearing and sensitivity to musical performance.
The first school founded by the Society of Friends, or Quakers, in the United States.
America’s first woman educator and founder of the first school for women that offered a curriculum equivalent to that of men’s academies and colleges.
Americaneducator who defied violent antieducation sentimentin his native North Carolina to establishuniversal public education in the state andto keep most schools running during the CivilWar.
A 1952 U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared unconstitutional an Oklahoma law requiring state employees to take a loyalty oath as a condition of employment.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1981 affirming the constitutional right of student organizations at public colleges and universities to hold religious services on campus property.
A pedagogical approach to the teaching of reading and writing by extensive use of themes from children’s literature and children’s own experiences and stories.
Ad hoc groups of townspeople formed throughout the South in the 1950s to resist racial desegregation of schools and what they called the “mongrelization” of the Caucasian race.
American educator who succeeded his father, the founder and first president of Dartmouth College, to the presidency of that institution in 1779.
American religious leader and educator who founded the town of Hanover, New Hampshire, and Dartmouth College.
The 35th state to enter the Union, in 1863, after its secession from Virginia, which had joined the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War.
An archaic method of measuring per pupil American physician and educator who devised the model for modern medical school education.