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Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) 11-08-2011, 11:21

Swedish economist, social scientist and Nobel laureate in economics whose monumental study of American life published in 1944 forced liberal American intellectuals to confront their failure to provide equal educational opportunities to blacks and other disenfranchised Americans.

Mutual Education and Cultural Exchange Act (Fulbright-Hays Act) 11-08-2011, 11:18

Enabling legislation passed by Congress in 1961 to permit American...

Music 11-08-2011, 11:16

In education, a wide-ranging course of study, beginning in kindergarten and continuing through elementary school and college and into university graduate school.

Museum 10-08-2011, 13:19

An educative institution for procuring, preserving, studying, storing and exhibiting objects of artistic, historic or scientific interest.

Multiversity 10-08-2011, 13:08

A colloquialism, or jargon, for the largest of American universities, such as the University...

Multiple Intelligence Theory 10-08-2011, 13:06

A theory that there are at least eight universal types of intelligence...

Multiple-choice test 10-08-2011, 13:02

An examination consisting of questions that give students a choice of several possible answers with which to complete a statement or solve a problem.

Multimedia instruction 10-08-2011, 12:58

The simultaneous use of more than one medium to produce a complete learning unit.

Multicultural education 10-08-2011, 12:55

An adaptation of the primary and secondary school curriculum to recognize and teach the contributions of the different cultural, ethnic, racial and social groups that make up American society.

Multibasal reading program 10-08-2011, 12:52

An elementary school reading instruction...

Mueller v. Allen 10-08-2011, 12:50

A 1983 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of a Minnesota...

Mrs. Slack’s The Instructor: or, Young Man’s Best Companion 9-08-2011, 08:54

A widely used manual of self-instruction for young men...

Moving school 9-08-2011, 08:52

An arrangement in colonial Massachusetts under which a teacher spent a few months in the schoolhouse...

Movement education 9-08-2011, 08:50

An approach to physical education that gives students an intellectual understanding of each physical movement before they are asked to perform the movement.

Mount Holyoke College 9-08-2011, 08:48

The world’s first women’s college, founded in South Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1837 by MARY LYON.

John R. Mott (1865–1955) 9-08-2011, 08:44

Organizer and long-time leader of the STUDENT VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS (SVM), which recruited thousands of American college students to serve as Christian missionaries in southeast Asia, China, Japan, Africa and Latin America.

Motivation 9-08-2011, 08:41

Those collective needs and desires that drive an individual to act and, in education, to learn.

Mortarboard 8-08-2011, 03:37

Colloquial name for the square, flat-topped caps worn by most students at school and college graduation ceremonies.

Morphology 8-08-2011, 03:36

In linguistics, the study of how words and language are formed and structured in relationship to one another.

Morpheme 8-08-2011, 03:34

The smallest unit of meaning in any language.

John Morgan (1735–1789) 8-08-2011, 03:32

American physician, educator and “father” of modern medical education in the United States.

More Effective Schools 8-08-2011, 03:29

An early, pioneering educational reform scheme introduced into public schools in 1964 in economically deprived areas of New York City.

Moral philosophy 8-08-2011, 03:27

One of the three Aristotelian divisions of philosophy, which 18th-century educators in England and the American colonies used as a convenient approach to teaching philosophy.

Morality education 5-08-2011, 06:19

The teaching of civility and the rules of proper (and improper) conduct in society.