Encyclopedia of American Education

Extensively revised and updated, the Encyclopedia of American Education covers the entire span of American education from the colonial period to the present. Containing more than 2,000 entries, this three-volume work provides a wealth of information on virtually every aspect of education, from the evolution of school curriculum, education funding, and church-state controversies to the latest debates on multiculturalism, prayer in school, and sex education. Updated appendixes include an extensive bibliography for each subject area; a general chronology of American education since 1607; a summary of significant federal education legislation since 1787; a listing of every major U.S. Supreme Court decision affecting education--including eight new rulings handed down since the first edition was published; and a listing of graduate school offerings in education, undergraduate education majors, and undergraduate majors at American colleges. Coverage includes: education and reform movements; legal issues and landmarks; key education theories; the role of computers and technology in education; bilingual education; violence and crime in schools; and entries on the history, trends, and quality of education in each of the fifty states. Evangelism, evolution, extracurricular activities, faculty, federal aid to education, financial aid, First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Ford Foundation, foreign language study, Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Benjamin Franklin, Freedmen's Bureau, Society of Friends (Quakers), Frederick Wilhelm August Froebel, fundamentalism, gender discrimination, General Educational Development (GED) Program, G.I. Bill of Rights, gifted, Goals 2000, graduate school, graduation rate, grammar school, the Great Books Program, Great Depression, ancient Greece, handicaps, Head Start, hearing impaired, Hispanic Americans, illiteracy, immigrants/immigration, inner city schools, integration, intelligent design, Internet, I.Q., Thomas Jefferson, Jewish education, Lyndon B. Johnson, kindergarten, labor unions, Land Grant (Morrill) Act of 1862, land grant colleges, language arts, Latin, law/legal issues, learning, learning disabilities, learning theory, liberal arts, library, literacy, magnet school, mainstreaming, Horace Mann, Massachusetts Bay Colony, mathematics, medical education, middle school, minority education, multicultural education, music, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), National Association for the Advancement

שנה

2007

שפה

English

הוצאה

Facts on File

מהדורות

1

עמודים

1400

ISBN

9780816068876

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata