“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...

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...

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...

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...