An innovative elementary school science curriculum developed at New York University in 1965 and designed to promote scientific literacy among children, without resort to reading materials.

In one sense, the ability to focus on the task at hand and ignore distractions.

American educator, scientist and statesman, whose criticisms of American schools are generally credited with having started the post–World War II educational reform movement.

In education, basic tools for learning that not only store, retrieve and process data, as they do for other industries, but can also deliver certain types of instruction more efficiently than teachers.

The mastery of storing, retrieving and processing data on computers.

The teaching of subject matter with the help of specially prepared computer programs or software. Computer-assisted instruction is available in virtually every academic and many nonacademic subjects.

The legally required instruction of children in government-approved facilities by government-approved teachers.

A battery of minimum competency tests to measure student competence in areas considered basic for academic learning—namely...

An approach to secondary school musical education that combines the study of history of music...

A uniquely American secondary school that enrolls all students from a geographic area and offers a broad choice of curricula in three general areas: precollege academic, VOCATIONAL and “GENERAL.”

A set of written or oral tests to measure a student’s total command of a subject—usually the student’s major subject at college or graduate school.

A 1973 federal law that revised and regrouped various job training programs scattered throughout the Department of Labor and the Department of Health...

An act passed by Congress, but vetoed by President Richard M. Nixon in 1971.

The complex mental process by which a student understands the meaning of written, spoken, visual, emotional or other sensorily transmitted messages.

A piece of original student writing, usually an exercise in essay form that is basic to the teaching of writing skills in elementary and secondary schools.

A commonly used type of objective test which asks the student to “fill in the blank” by providing a missing word or phrase in an incomplete sentence.

A system of teacher training that requires teachers to learn and demonstrate a required body of knowledge, teaching skills and teacher attitudes.

A system of instruction tied to mandatory academic achievement that students must demonstrate before being permitted to progress to the next level.

Instructional programs designed to overcome the effects of poor education associated with poverty and racial segregation.

A relatively limited field of study within the graduate education curriculum that deals with comparison in formal education systems in different countries and societies.

A charitable group formed in 1649 by the Puritan Parliament and London merchants to raise funds to convert New England Indians to Christianity.

An elementary and secondary school activity for students to serve in any school-approved volunteer organization that serves the community.

A section (Title VIII) of the Educational Amendments of 1978 to provide federal grants to states and COMMUNITY EDUCATION agencies for “educational...

A wide range of educational opportunities sponsored by local government for the entire community, including adults of all ages, as well as children.