A textbook supplement containing exercises tied directly to materials discussed in the related text.
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.
American historian and educator; cited in most reference works as the “father of Negro history in the United States.” Born of former slaves in Virginia, he grew up in such dire poverty that his formal schooling was postponed until he was almost 20.
Any of a variety of liberal arts courses that focus on the roles, history, productive and creative output and contributions of women.
The formal instruction of women—until relatively recently, limited to the “domestic arts” and centering around skills needed for nurturing infants and maintaining the household.
A federal law that made women permanent participants in all branches of the U.S. Armed Services.
A complex 1977 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of an Ohio law authorizing various forms of state aid to private schools.
Scottish- born Presbyterian minister, educator, president of the College of New Jersey (now, Princeton) for 25 years and the only clergyman to sign the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
A vague term, which, in education, can mean everything from a student’s transfer to another school, to a leave due to illness, forced expulsion or dropping out.
A 1972 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that gave the Amish religious sect a rare exemption from state compulsory education laws.
Americanborn heir to one of the most preeminent colonial families, and the most distinguished teacher, scholar and scientist of the colonial or provincial era.
One of the many innovative educational experiments that American teachers and school administrators were attempting in the wake of JOHN DEWEY’s seminal work in the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LABORATORY SCHOOL.
A battery of tests to measure acuity of musical hearing and sensitivity to musical performance.
The first school founded by the Society of Friends, or Quakers, in the United States.
America’s first woman educator and founder of the first school for women that offered a curriculum equivalent to that of men’s academies and colleges.