America is embroiled in a debate over how best to educate its students. Throughout the past three decades, students have been exposed to a sea of educational fads, from new math and whole language to ...

College isn’t just a place to pursue intellectual passions; it provides the unique opportunity to become a more complete, adult human being. Anyone with access to the Internet knows the image: freedom ...

British publisher Pearson PLC became an overnight force to be reckoned with in U.S. school publishing three years ago with its $4.6 billion purchase of Simon & Schuster’s education assets, which ...

Education: The process of receiving and giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university. While the definition is quite evident, today’s educational means are met with an array of ...

A group of philanthropies and school and technology advocacy groups, with contributions from educators, compiled a four-part “working definition” of the attributes of personalized learning. They also ...

Education has never had an authoritative dictionary of its technical terms. Any three educators would haggle themselves silly trying to find a common 15-word definition for frontier thinkers, ...

THIS is part i. of an “Encyclopædia and Dictionary of Education” being issued under the general editorship of Prof. Foster Watson. The work when complete will comprise nearly 2000 large crown quarto ...

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Confront a 12-year-old schoolchild with this definition of a candle: A cylinder of combustible substance inclosing a wick to furnish light. No one knows better than Professor Edward Lee Thorndike that ...