Noncertified school system employees responsible for noninstructional services such as plant maintenance, food preparation and distribution, clerical work, business management, health care and teacher assistance.
A curriculum that emerged from the clerical and ministerial colleges of the Middle Ages. It has now come to mean a broad-based study of the liberal arts and sciences, as opposed to practical or preprofessional courses of study.
African-American social scientist, psychologist and educational reformer, whose pioneer research in education proved crucial to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision to outlaw school segregation.
The war between the northern and southern states. Fought over four years, from 1861 to 1865, the war had far-reaching short- and long-range repercussions on American education.
A far-reaching federal law that banned racial and ethnic segregation in American public schools, colleges and universities and all other educational institutions receiving federal assistance.
A 1930s, Depression-era program of the U.S. government that pioneered many early techniques in adult education and put more than 2.5 million unemployed young men to work on vital land and forest conservation projects.
In education, those conflicts centering over government prohibition against the teaching or practice of any religion in publicly funded educational institutions.
Educational institutions that integrate religious instruction into their curricula and are operated either directly by religious authorities or lay authorities associated with a religious sect.
Private, fundamentalist Protestant, or evangelical, schools that are usually members of one of four associations: the American Association of Christian Schools...
A television production company of the 1960s, now known as Sesame Workshop and owned by Time Inc., and 1970s that produced the first educational television programs for children.
The privileges, protection and other entitlements granted to children under the law. Because of their status as dependents, minors traditionally have had few, if any, legal “rights.”
Voluntary fraternal and sororal organizations founded largely in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to supplement the work of schools in shaping the characters of American youngsters.
