Theologian, educator and father of modern American evangelism.

An obsolete term referring to one- and two-year proprietary and postsecondary schools to teach females the domestic and ornamental arts.

A system of communication for the deaf, using finger configurations to represent each letter of the alphabet...

An early, primary school activity in which children use finger movements, rather than their full bodies, to act out stories and feelings.

A creative type of free play in preschool and kindergarten that permits children to dip their fingers in nontoxic paint...

Those arts concerned with the creation of works whose function is primarily aesthetic, as opposed to the practical or utilitarian arts.

Any of a variety of monetary loans, grants, tax credits, employment opportunities, scholarships, fellowships and stipends offered by public and private agencies...

Teacher-led student excursions to sites such as museums, historical restorations, government buildings...

Any large indoor enclosure with enough unobstructed space to conduct sports and activities normally held outdoors...

An element of a student’s formal education that is conducted off-campus and that may or may not be supervised by school personnel.

An institution created after Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition of 1893 to provide a permanent display of the exposition’s natural history exhibits.

A remedial reading instruction method that relies on as many of the child’s senses as possible to reinforce learning.

A nontaxable financial award, usually to graduate school students, for educational costs and some living expenses.

Innovative Swiss educator and social reformer whose experimental educational institution at Hofwyl, an estate near Berne...

A 1949 New York State law allowing the state’s Board of Regents to compile a list of organizations it deemed subversive...

A body formed by 33 Christian Protestant denominations in 1908 to reverse the secularization of American public schools by introducing Protestant instruction into the curriculum.

A group created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 as part of the National Recovery Administration.

One of six projects within the Works Progress Administration, a major agency formed under the 1935 Emergency Relief Appropriation Act...

A loosely knit group of cooperative organizations aimed at furthering the educational, financial and political interests of southern and western farmers during the 1880s and 1890s.

A segment of home economics education dealing with all aspects of the family and the home...

An elected body representing faculties too large to participate in productive faculty meetings.

An official conference of a school’s entire faculty or the members of a single department.

A member of the school or college faculty assigned as personal counselor to one or more students.

The teaching staff of a school, college or university.