“Intellectually and morally, America’s educational system is failing far too many people.” —Signatories of “A Nation Still at Risk,” 1998 In 1983, the U.S. Department of Education released a report, A Nation at...

Education and Literacy Timeline 1850–1900 ∼ The Beginning of Public Education Massachusetts passes first compulsory education law (1852) / Office of Education created (1867) / Comstock Law prohibits possessing any book, pamphlet, paper,...

Native Americans were among the first pupils in European schools in North America. Religious education was a tool of conquest used by all European colonizers in the New World (the European term for North and South America). Driven by "God, Gold,...

Education and schooling are not synonymous. Education is the more encompassing concept, referring to the general process by which a social group—whether an entire society, a family, or a corporation—transmits attitudes, beliefs,...

In 2000 approximately forty-seven million public school students were enrolled in kindergarten through twelfth grade in the United States. According to The Condition of Education, 2002 (Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, 2003),...

It is safe to say that the current living standard is the highest since the beginning of human history. We have achieved unprecedented levels of life expectancy, income per capita, and educational attainment over the past few decades. This...

Any regular practice, for example, agriculture, craft production, navigation, or scholarship, requires learning opportunities for novice practitioners, which have often been provided in workplaces, or through informal instruction and self-directed...

The Great Depression, the most severe economic crisis the United States had ever experienced, began in late 1929 with the crash of the stock market. Schools, like every other part of American society, were deeply affected, but the hardships of the...

One of the main reasons education is valued so highly in modern societies is the role it plays in relation to social mobility and reproduction. This role has long been debated between those who emphasize its contribution to social mobility and those...

The American Revolution created a republic that in theory placed sovereignty in the people rather than an elite, which in England was composed largely of a hereditary aristocracy and landed gentry. Republics, theorists stated, depended upon the wisdom...

discipline that is concerned with methods of teaching and learning in schools or school-like environments as opposed to various nonformal and informal means of socialization (e.g., rural development projects and education through parent-child...

Although dominated by psychology, the field of educational research was once largely restricted to the general discipline of philosophy. Other disciplines, such as anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, have become increasingly...

In the 1960s many young people in the United States were inspired to pursue aerospace-related careers because of the U.S. commitment to send humans to the Moon. Universities saw an influx of enthusiastic students ready to take on the challenges of the...

the first stage traditionally found in formal education, beginning at about age 5 to 7 and ending at about age 11 to 13. In the United Kingdom and some other countries, the term primary is used instead of elementary. In the United States the term...

An educator is a person who systematically works to improve another's understanding of a topic. The role of educator encompasses both those who teach in classrooms and the more informal educators who, for example, work in zoos, museums, and...

. The educational system in 5th-century Gaul was based on the Greco-Roman model, which, like the Germanic one, was male-oriented. Boys were educated at home until age seven, when they were sent to a primary school to learn to read, write, and count...

Founded in 1969, the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) is the premier membership organization of the 117 historically and predominantly black colleges and universities in the United States. These institutions have...

Education has traditionally been a selection mechanism for reproducing the dominant social and economic role of men in society. However, there is now a concern in many education systems that boys are not succeeding in school as much as they should....

The study of formal education has, until recently, been a relatively marginal concern within anthropology. By contrast, a more broadly-defined interest in learning, particularly as it relates to cultural transmission, has been central to the...

He who can does, he who cannot teaches. (German) He who is not taught by God is taught by man. (Irish) He who teaches children learns more than they do. (German) He who teaches me for one day is my father for life. (Chinese) It is hard to teach old...

Learning that takes place in schools or school-like environments (formal education) or in the world at large; the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. In developing cultures there is often little formal education; children...

The Book of *Deuteronomy (ch. 6:7) stipulates that the commandments of *God must be taught to children and by the era of the Second Temple, an elaborate system of education had been set up for boys. Attached to *synagogues were elementary schools...

1. UNESCO definition is ‘the organized and sustained instruction designed to communicate a combination of knowledge, skills and understanding valuable for all the activities of life’. This definition relates to the concept of lifelong...

Learning capacities that are spared in humans and non-human animals with impairments of MEMORY. Which learning abilities are impaired and which ones are spared depends on the neurological condition or the type of brain damage that produces the...

A faithful study of the liberal arts refines the manners and corrects their harshness. (Roman) A jade stone is useless before it is polished; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated. (Chinese) An easy education weakens all powers both of mind...

1. The process of presenting knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values, which can be transmitted to and learned by others. This is commonly called didactic teaching. 2. A process of questioning, so that the students can learn through the sequence of...

Established by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education in order to provide support funding for projects in the field of continuing...

An INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING paradigm in which the subject must make or withhold a response to cues, rather than approach or avoid them. IAN...

The hierarchical structured educational system introduced by most states extending from primary schools to graduate programmes in universities. See non-formal...

A form of learning whereby the learner acquires knowledge or skill without being consciously aware of...

All education that is provided after the legal minimum school-leaving...

The literacy programme of...

Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of...