The StateUniversity.com Education Encyclopedia is a resource for professional educators as well as students in an education program. The encyclopedia features hundreds of carefully-researched articles about educational methods, best practices, and controversial issues in higher education.
Essay Components, Afghanistan - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Administration, Finance, & Educational Research - SECONDARY EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION, Albania - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Secondary Education - NONFORMAL EDUCATION, SUMMARY, Algeria - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Secondary Education, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Secondary Education…
Iceland - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Secondary Education, India - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Secondary Education, Indonesia - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Secondary Education, Iran - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Secondary Education, Iraq - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Secondary Education…
Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Secondary Education, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Secondary Education, Senegal - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Secondary Education, Serbia - History & Background, Constitutional & Legal Foundations, Educational System—overview, Preprimary & Primary Education, Secondary Education…
Faculty as Entrepreneurs - Growth of Faculty Entrepreneurship, What Is Faculty Entrepreneurship?, Advantages of Faculty Entrepreneurship, Disadvantages of Faculty Entrepreneurship, Faculty Consulting - Issues, Policies, Characteristics of Faculty Who Consult, Faculty Diversity - The Growth of Faculty Diversity as an Ideal, Barriers in the Academic Workplace, Demographics, Part Time Faculty Members - Reasons for the Growth of Part-Time Faculty, Who Are the Part-Time Faculty?, Faculty Performance of Research and Scholarship - Historical Background, Factors Affecting Scholarly Performance, Defining Scholarship, Measurement, Scholarly Activities and Products…
Immigrant Education - UNITED STATES, INTERNATIONAL, Immunization and Children's Physical Health - Childhood Immunizations, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, Immunization Safety, Impact Aid, Public Laws 815 and 874 - Program Analysis, Future Directions, Independent Study - Purposes and Goals of Independent Study, Independent Study and Extensiveness in Grades K– (12), Individual Differences - Affective And Conative Processes, Ethnicity, Gender Equity And Schooling - ABILITIES AND APTITUDES, Individualized Instruction - Pace, Method, Content, Examples of Individualized Instruction, Final Issues, Infant Schools in England - A History of Infant Schools, Influences of the Infant Schools on Education in Other Countries, Summary…
Managed Care and Children - What Is Managed Care?, Trends in Managed Care among Children, Horace Mann (1796–1859) - Education and Training, Career and Contribution, the Master's Degree - History, A Growing Demand, A Changing Clientele, Teacher Preparation Mathematics Education - The Evolution of Mathematics Teacher Education, The Evolution of Mathematics Education as a Field of Inquiry, Mathematics Learning - Complex Problem Solving, Geometry, Learning Tools, Myths, Mysteries, And Realities, Number Sense - ALGEBRA, Benjamin Mays (1895–1984) - The Formative Years, Early Religious Scholarship, The Howard Years, Morehouse College, The Morehouse Mentor…
Ethnicity Race and Culture - Latino Growth, Racial And Ethnic Minority Students In Higher Education - CULTURAL EXPECTATIONS AND STUDENT LEARNING, Readability in Dices - Readability Formulas, Readability and Comprehension Processes, Reading - Comprehension, Content Areas, Interest, Learning From Text, Prior Knowledge, Beliefs, And Learning - BEGINNING READING, Reading Disabilities - Historical Context, Types of Reading Disabilities, Validity of the Discrepancy Model, Changing Criteria for Reading Disability, Records and School Reports - Records Custodian, Categories, Recreation Programs in the Schools - School-Sponsored Recreation, Community-Sponsored Recreation, School-Community Cooperative Partnerships, Current Trends…
States and Education - State Administrative Services In Education, State Boards Of Education, State Governments In Higher Education - LEGAL BASIS OF STATE RELATIONS TO NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS, Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) - Steiner's Pedagogical Approach, St. John's College, Strategic and Long-Range Planning in Higher Education - Long-Range Planning, Strategic Planning, Contextual Planning, Cooperation and Leadership in Planning, Conclusion, Florence Stratemeyer (1900–1980), Stress and Depression - The Role of Stress in Depression, The Impact on Academic Functioning and Educational Progress…
Appendix III: Court Cases, Legislation, and International Agreements, Appendix IV: Internet Resources, Appendix V: Bibliography, Appendix VI: Outline of Contents, Appendix III: Court Cases, Legislation, and International Agreements, Appendix IV: Internet Resources, Appendix V: Bibliography, Appendix VI: Outline of Contents…
AACSB International - Program, History, Academic Advising in Higher Education - Developmental Advising, Differences between Developmental and Prescriptive Approaches, A Brief History of Academic Advising, Academic Calendars - Calendar Use during the Decade (1990–2000), Current Calendar Use, Calendar Conversions, The Academic Dean - Typical Characteristics of Academic Deans, Career Path to the Academic Deanship, Academic Disciplines - Disciplines and the Structure of Higher Education, Discipline Classification Systems, Discipline Differences, Academic Freedom and Tenure - Roots of Academic Freedom, Restrictions on Academic Freedom, Tenure, Academic Labor Markets - Supply and Demand, Gender and Ethnicity, Salary Issues…
Common School Movement - Colonial and Republican Schooling, Changes in the Antebellum Era, The Rise of the Common School, Agencies Community-Based Organizations and Groups - Community Organization versus Community Organizing, The History of Community Organization, Types of Community Organization, Community Colleges - The History of Community Colleges, The junior college and the research university., The Community College Mission, Community Education - A Comprehensive Plan, Community School, Impact on Education and Communities, Community Education in Action, Commuter Students - Commuter Student Challenges, Compensatory Education - UNITED STATES, POLICIES AND PROGRAMS IN LATIN AMERICA…
Classroom Management - Creating a Learning Environment, Setting Expectations, Motivational Climate, Maintaining a Learning Environment, When Problems Occur, Classroom Observation - Purposes of Classroom Observation, Limitations of Classroom Observation, New Directions, Classroom Questions - Types Of Questions, Feedback, Effective Questioning Practices, Class Size and Student Learning - Class-Size Research (1978–2002), Translating Class-Size Research to Practice, Clubs - Club Participation, Why Participation is Expected to Benefit Youth, Benefits of Participation in Clubs, Coalition of Essential Schools, Coalition of Essential Schools' Common Principles…
A Basis for Choice (ABC), co‐education, Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS), Council for Irish‐Medium Education (Comhairle na Gaelscolaíochta), course, coursework, crammer, creativity, credit, Credit and Qualifications Framework for Wales (CQFW), criterion‐referenced, cross‐curricular, cultural studies, currency, curriculum, curriculum, common, curriculum, compulsory, curriculum, core, curriculum, entitlement, curriculum, hidden, curriculum, national, curriculum, negotiated, curriculum, spiral, curriculum development, Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), Curriculum Online, curriculum planning…
journal, academic, journal, reflective, junior school, Kennedy Report (1997), key skills, key stage (KS), kinaesthetic, kindergarten, Kingman Report (1988), knowledge, knowledge about language (KAL), David Kolb Biography, language across the curriculum, language deficit, language laboratory, language school, languages in primary schools, lateral thinking, later life learning, Launchpad schools, lead inspector, league tables (performance tables), Learndirect, learner‐centred, learning, Learning and Skills Council (LSC), Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA)…
psychomotor, public school, pupil, pupil‐centred, pupil referral unit (PRU), pupil–teacher ratio, Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF), Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), qualified teacher learning and skills (QTLS), qualified teacher status (QTS), qualitative, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), Quality Improvement Agency (QIA), quantitative, radical educators, raising of the school‐leaving age (Rosla), Raising Skills, Improving Life Chances, range, reader, readiness, reading, reading age, received pronunciation (RP), reception, record of achievement…
