Two equally applicable designations for a syndrome that includes excessive, impulse-driven activity, short attention span, high distractibility, social immaturity, inappropriate lack of inhibitions and learning difficulties usually requiring special education.

American educator, educational innovator and champion of the traditional classical education based on careful study of the great books of the Western tradition.

A formal codification of the teaching process for elementary and secondary school education.

New York City’s first “normal,” or teacher-training, college.

Those formal courses dealing with human thoughts and feelings rather than natural processes.

An approach to instruction vaguely (and arguably) defined as emphasizing the social and psychological as well as intellectual development of the student.

The second and most famous of the more than 400 settlement houses that sprouted in city slums across the United States between 1890 and 1910.

The largest predominantly African-American university in the United States.

The basic unit of social organization and education in the American colonies and in the United States until the Civil War.

In education, institutions not only for treating the sick and injured but also for medical research and the training and education of future physicians, surgeons and health practitioners.

The earliest form of children’s primer in the American colonies,

Any Greek-letter or similar society whose membership is based on academic achievement in higher education.

A group of secondary school courses reserved for the highest academic achievers.

A periodic listing of students with the highest GRADE POINT averages for the preceding marking period.

An all-but-obsolete conduct regulation whereby students pledged not to violate any school or college rules in or out of the classroom and agreed to report themselves or their schoolmates for any such violations.

An unearned academic degree—usually a doctorate—conferred by an institution of higher education for reasons other than the completion of a specific course of study.

Two standard, though contrasting, methods of grouping students in courses and classrooms.

Assigned academic work that students are expected to complete at home or during nonclass hours and return to the teacher within a specified time.

The vaguely defined and problematic, cooperative effort of parents and guardians to help their children’s schools achieve their educational goals.

The formal instruction of children in their homes instead of in school.

A classroom where a specific group of students from the same grade meet each day with their assigned home-room teacher for administrative functions such as attendance taking...

In education, the status of being without a legal residence, which, until 1987, rendered a child or youth legally ineligible to enroll in public schools in districts and states with specific residency requirements.

The study of a wide variety of topics relating to management of the home, the family and the home life of the individual.

A professionally certified home economist employed by LAND-GRANT COLLEGES to provide instruction and practical demonstrations of home economics...