The Spanish-speaking population of the United States. Overwhelmingly made up of persons from the Americas, Hispanics became the largest minority in the United States at the end of the 20th century, increasing more than 80% over the last two decades to a total of 40 million by 2003—more than 13.7% of the United States population.
A computer-based system for teaching low-achieving or educationally, deprived elementary school students to solve problems independently, with little help from the teacher.
A landmark federal law that provided the first federal scholarships and subsidized loans to college undergraduates and established a National Teacher Corps to improve teaching quality in low-income areas of the United States.
Leading American physicist and mathematician; responsible for converting the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., into a major sponsor of American scientific research.
A college that was to have been founded in Henrico, Virginia, originally “for the education of the children of those American Indian barbarians,” but later for both Indian and English children.
A 19th-century organization that countered efforts of Christian missionaries by founding a group of free schools for New York City’s Jewish immigrant children.
The language of the Old Testament and a required subject, along with Greek and Latin, in the curriculum of the early, theologically oriented colleges in the American colonies.