American patriot, lawyer and educator and the first professor of law in any American college.
American patriot, lawyer and educator and the first professor of law in any American college.
A 1986 United States Supreme Court ruling that a school board, in an effort to cut costs, could not preserve the jobs of black teachers by laying off white teachers.
A section of the elementary school classroom where students can engage quietly in original writing, apart from the rest of the class.
A method of human intercommunication by inscribing visible symbols on any of a wide variety of surfaces.
A landmark, 1982 decision by the Circuit Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C., prohibiting the federal government from granting tax-exempt status to any private school that practices racial discrimination.
American educator and author of the first definitive government study of American vocational education. Born in New Hampshire, he became a schoolteacher to pay for his training in law.
An organization formed in 1919 by a group of leaders of various fundamentalist Protestant Christian sects to mount a massive, formal education effort to combat secular education in the United States.
A secondary school course or series of courses designed to give students a broad understanding and overview of the adult workplace.
An on-line repository of international cultural artifacts organized by the United States LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
somewhat confusing term referring to on-campus job programs for needy students to earn part of the costs of tuition and room and board at college or university.
A federal agency, known later as the Works Projects Administration, created in 1935, during the depths of the Great Depression, to provide the unemployed with the kind of work they were best fitted to do.
A relatively new concept relating to a high school graduate’s mastery of certain “soft skills” deemed essential for entrylevel workers in a broad range of industries.
Any formal or informal instructional program to improve employee vocational or academic skills.
A textbook supplement containing exercises tied directly to materials discussed in the related text.
The link between formal education and specific job opportunities.
An extension of the multisensory approach to the teaching of reading by adding the medium of color to the sounds of the English language.
The production and editing of printed documents on a computerized system that includes a keyboard, video display, magnetic storage device and software or operating system.
Any of a variety of compilations of words, arranged on the basis of increasing difficulty and used as an element of spelling instruction.
A pedagogical method for helping children to remember spellings of large groups...
A pedagogical tool for teachingand improving spelling and writing of first, secondand third graders.
An essential methodology for deciphering the meaning of new and unfamiliar words.
A 1975 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held a school board member liable for damages for violating the constitutional rights of students.