A systematic grouping of physical exercises designed to improve student strength, rhythm, balance, flexibility and agility.

A large, peculiarly American room or building in which students may participate in either formal or informal physical exercise, games, sports and dance.

Physician, educator and “father” of physical education as a standard element of the public elementary and secondary school curriculum in the United States.

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In education, the proffering of advice and counsel to students by trained specialists with a minimum of one or two years of graduate study in counseling and state certificates as guidance counselors.

An island territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean, midway between the International Date Line and the Philippine Islands and at about the same latitude as the Philippines.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision in June 2003 upholding the principle of affirmative action in the University of Michigan Law School admissions process.

An obsolete but once widely used method of teaching mathematics developed in 1842 by A. W. Grube, an otherwise obscure mathematics instructor.

The individual, interpersonal social responses peculiar to individuals functioning in small groups, usually defined as 10 people or fewer.

The simultaneous dispensing of universally applicable advice by a trained professional to groups of usually no more than 10 students.

A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1964, affirming the right of federal courts to levy taxes and raise funds to reopen public schools when local school boards fail to do so.

A 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a desegregation plan allowing black and white students in New Kent County to choose whether or not they wanted to attend formerly all-black or all-white schools.

The language of ancient Greece, the study of which was required, along with Latin and Hebrew...

A system of teaching mathematics to elementary school children based on logic and abstract concepts rather than rote memorization of tables.

A curriculum based on the study of an arbitrarily selected group of classic works of philosophy, literature, history and science that some educators consider the foundation of all worthwhile human knowledge.

A massive, 18thcentury eruption of evangelistic fervor that swept the American colonies, provoking a social and political, as well as religious, awakening that eventually fueled the American Revolution.

American educator, best remembered as creator of the ubiquitous “DICK AND JANE” BOOKS that served as first and second readers for children in almost every American elementary school from the 1920s until shortly after World War II.

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in June 2003 banning the University of Michigan’s use of a “point system”...

A not uncommon error of primary and secondary schoolteachers,

An outright cash gift tied to specific performance obligations of the grantee.

A pioneer in women’s education and one of the first educators to expand the women’s curriculum beyond the range of the so-called domestic and ornamental arts that prepared women for lives as wives and mothers.

A traditional method of teaching foreign languages by translation of word lists, sentences and written passages, followed by repeated drill and oral and written practice.

A term in American education that now denotes an elementary or primary school, but originally meant a school that emphasized the study of Latin grammar in preparation for intensive study of the scriptures.