Social and educational reformer, U.S. congressman and creator of the legislation that established the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION as a teaching as well as research organization.
Social and educational reformer, U.S. congressman and creator of the legislation that established the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION as a teaching as well as research organization.
A wealthy English textile manufacturer and idealistic socialist reformer who, believing that universal public education would lead to social perfection, spent a fortune establishing utopian communities in Scotland, Britain and the United States. The father of the cooperative movement, Owenite ideas changed American thinking about education by popularizing the concept of universal public education.
An agreement developed in the late 1950s among the eight IVY LEAGUE colleges, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and about two dozen other academically selective northeastern colleges to abandon merit scholarships and award such grants solely on the basis of financial need.
An audiovisual device that projects images from transparencies onto a screen.
Contracting of on-campus services with independent, profit-making organizations unaffiliated with the educational institutions.
Any of a wide variety of formal or informal educational programs operated independently of the school.
A formal or informal curriculum enrichment to develop knowledge of ecology among elementary and secondary school students.
A primary and secondary school curriculum that ties classroom work to problem-solving and higher order reasoning skills and requires student demonstration of minimum levels...
A group intelligence test developed in 1936 by psychologist Arthur Otis (1886–1964) and made up of short, objective questions to permit quick administration and scoring.
An eight-step system for teaching learning-disabled students to read.
American physician and pioneer in the identification of dyslexia as an eminently remedial, nonpsychiatric learning disability.
The written or printed representation of the correct or standard spelling of the words and sounds of a language.
A pioneering institution founded in New York City in 1807 to provide instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic and the domestic arts to orphaned or abandoned children.
In education, the arrangement of the members of a school and school district, including students, faculty, administration and staff, and the determination of their functions, goals and interrelationships.
A method of beginning music and instrumental instruction based on paralleling the evolution of music itself at the beginning of history, that is, by studying the development of rhythm, followed by development of melody, followed by development of harmony.
A standard exercise and pedagogical technique in elementary (and some middle) school reading classes.
A technique using written notes or tape and video recorders to record history as related by witnesses and other persons with indepth knowledge of historical events and developments.
A special class for students experiencing temporary, relatively mild behavior problems that have proved disruptive in their regular classrooms.
A concept of nontraditional higher education that combines a variety of pedagogical approaches, including educational radio and television, correspondence courses and traditional pedagogy to provide education to adults unable to attend traditional institutions of higher education.
A usually annual occasion when parents are invited to their children’s elementary and secondary schools to visit with their children’s teachers and school administrators and hear them explain their educational goals, school policies and the teaching methods, materials and expectations in each class and subject.
A concept of preschool and kindergarten education conducted in an “open classroom,” or large teaching area, two or more times larger than traditional classrooms.
A policy (often called open enrollment) that admits applicants to a school, college or university on a first-come first-served basis, regardless of the student’s previous academic performance, financial status or other traditional requirements for admission.