A 1992 U.S.

An early (1931) standardized diagnostic tool for teachers to use to determine whether kindergartners and first graders are academically and developmentally prepared to learn to read.

A method of direct instruction whereby the teacher transmits material orally and visually, while students listen passively and take notes as study guides for eventual examinations or course papers

A legal requirement of the EDUCATION FOR ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT OF 1975 that all schools and other public,

Any of a wide variety of explanations of the physiological and psychological phenomena that permit animals and people to acquire knowledge and behavior patterns.

Any classroom or area devoted to the teaching of a broad range of learning and study skills at any level of education, from elementary school through university.

A portfolio containing a complete, self-directed learning activity or lesson plan for use by students.

Jargon referring to any self-contained element of a broader, extended learning project.

A specially equipped classroom designed to help students with a wide range of learning problems stretching from inadequate study habits to learning disabilities.

A broad spectrum of malfunctions of unknown cause that deter otherwise normal, healthy and intelligent individuals from understanding and acquiring language skills.

An agreement between a student and teacher specifying an amount of work or a project the student is to complete and the time limit for its completion.

Any intrinsic, usually inexplicable, albeit remediable, interference in the learning process.

In education, the acquisition of knowledge; also used in a broader, psychosociological and neurological sense to indicate any permanent change in behavior or attitude.

The ability to direct and influence the intellectual, emotional and physical behavior of others.

Graduate schools that train students to become professional lawyers and/or jurists.

the more than 190 law schools accredited by the American Bar Association.

A relatively new area of instruction that groups together elements of civics, history, social studies and citizenship education in a curriculum designed to provide nonprofessional students with knowledge and understanding of laws and the American legal system.

A far-reaching 1974 U.S.

An instructional method of teaching adult illiterates to read using individual tutors and an elaborate system of pictures.

A private secondary school developed in England that originally took boys of nine or ten years of age for four to seven years of preparation for college.

The language of ancient Rome and its vast territories and, until the mid-19th century, the language of classical scholarship, required in every school and college as a core subject.

American social reformer, champion of child labor laws and first chief of the U.S. Department of Labor Children’s Bureau when it opened in 1912.

The oldest artificial audiovisual devices in American education, dating back to the early 19th century, when candlelight was used to project and enlarge images from glass squares onto a classroom wall.

A World War II preparation measure passed by Congress in the spring of 1941 to provide federally sponsored day-care centers for preschool children of mothers working in defense industries.