‘Education’ Archives
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Swiss scientist whose studies of child development altered education by proving that children pass through specific stages of intellectual development that limit what they can learn at each stage. Although many educators had theorized much of what Piaget proved (in more than 50 books), most teachers in the early 1900s [...]
Mastery Learning
Mastery Learning One of a number of strategies designed to provide the equivalent of individualized instruction in a conventional classroom setting. Designed to help students achieve a predetermined level of competence, mastery learning is based on the concept that every student is capable of learning basic skills and acquiring the requisite [...]
Employment and Education
Employment and Education The relationship between the number of years of formal schooling and unemployment rates and earnings. In the decades since World War II, if 10% of those who completed high school are unemployed, the rate of unemployment will average 16.7% for persons with eight years or less education; 21.1% for persons who dropped out [...]
Compensatory Education
Compensatory Education Instructional programs designed to overcome the effects of poor education associated with poverty and racial segregation. The most renowned of these is HEAD START, a government-sponsored preschool program that has helped provide millions of socially disadvantaged youngsters with learning skills generally lumped together [...]
Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts of America One of many organizations for children formed at the beginning of the 20th century by members of the PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION movement to provide educational experiences that would supplement the work of schools during the days and weeks when school was not in session. Founded in 1910, adult leaders of the Boy Scouts of [...]
Profiles
Profiles In education, a condensed, albeit comprehensive, description of key characteristics of a school, college or university. Virtually all public and private secondary schools, colleges and universities in the United States publish profiles of their institutions and usually submit such profiles to school guide publishers for inclusion in [...]
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin A pioneer institution of higher education in the area of public service and adult education through its extension services. Now made up of 26 campuses, with a total enrollment of about 160,000, the university�s origins go back to 1849 and the founding of the tiny College of Wisconsin, in Madison. Later a land-grant [...]
Princeton University
Princeton University One of the preeminent institutions of higher education in the United States and among the most selective universities in the world, Princeton was founded as the COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY by the Presbyterian Synod of Philadelphia in 1746 after a split in the New York Presbyterian Church between orthodox Old Light and more [...]
Presidential Scholars
Presidential Scholars The nation’s highest honor for a high school student, an honorary, nonmonetary award given by the president of the United States each year to the 141 most distinguished graduating high school seniors in the United States. Chosen on the basis of their academic and artistic success and their leadership and involvement in [...]
Portfolio
Portfolio A selective collection of an individual student’s work over a specific period of time—usually a month, semester or school year. Portfolios are an element of OUTCOMEBASED EDUCATION programs introduced into many American public schools at the beginning of the 1990s. Because they are selective and represent a totality of the [...]
