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Charter Education
The charter education movement had its beginning in a number of reform ideas, including alternative schools, site-based management, magnet schools, public school choice, privatization, and community-parental empowerment. The term charter originated in the ...
- Accountability
- Biographies
- Addams, Jane
- Ashton-Warner, Sylvia
- Ball, William B.
- Beckner, William M.
- Beecher, Catharine
- Bethune, Mary McLeod
- Blow, Susan
- Bruner, Jerome
- Butler, Nicholas Murray
- Coleman, James S.
- Comer, James
- Conant, James Bryant
- Counts, George S.
- Cubberley, Ellwood
- Dabney, Robert L.
- Dewey, John
- Douglass, Frederick
- Drexel, Katharine
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Eliot, Charles W.
- Finn, Chester E., Jr.
- Flesch, Rudolf
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Freire, Paulo
- Friedman, Milton
- Gallaudet, Edward
- Gibbons, James Cardinal
- Giroux, Henry A.
- Goodlad, John
- Goodman, Paul
- Greeley, Andrew M.
- Haley, Margaret
- Hall, G. Stanley
- Harris, William Torrey
- Hirsch, E. D., Jr.
- Hodge, Charles
- Holt, John
- Hughes, John
- Illich, Ivan
- Ireland, John
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Jencks, Christopher
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Kozol, Jonathan
- Lyon, Mary
- Mann, Horace
- Marshall, Thurgood
- Maslow, Abraham
- Mercer, Charles F.
- Merriam, Lewis
- Montessori, Maria
- Neill, A. S.
- Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer
- Piaget, Jean
- Ravitch, Diane
- Rice, Joseph Mayer
- Rickover, Hyman
- Ruffner, William Henry
- Rugg, Harold
- Rush, Benjamin
- Rushdoony, Rousas
- Seton, Elizabeth
- Shulman, Lee
- Sizer, Theodore
- Skinner, B. F.
- Taba, Hilda
- Terman, Lewis M.
- Thorndike, Edward L.
- Tyler, Ralph
- Utopian Reformers
- Vygotsky, Lev
- Warren, Earl
- Washington, Booker T.
- Webster, Noah
- Willard, Emma Hart
- Young, Ella Flagg
- Concepts and Theories
- Ability Grouping
- Age Grading
- Americanization
- Assertive Discipline
- Behaviorism
- Berkeley Plan
- Compulsory Attendance
- Conflict Management
- Desegregation/Integration
- Dispositions
- Essentialism
- Ethical Theories
- Faribault-Stillwater Plan
- Feminist Perspectives
- Herbartian Movement
- Libertarianism
- Lowell Plan
- Management by Objectives
- Moral Development
- Moral Education
- Multiple Intelligences
- Neoconservatives
- Oswego Movement
- Paideia Proposal
- Performance Contracting
- Pestalozzianism
- Postmodernism
- Poughkeepsie Plan
- Process–Product Research
- Professional Development
- Progressive Education
- Reconceptualists
- Rural Education
- School Choice
- School Climate
- School Size
- School-to-Work
- Scientifically Based Research (SBR)
- Secular Humanism
- Service Learning
- Small-School Movement
- Social Efficiency
- Social Reconstructionism
- Teacher Education
- Teacher Evaluation
- Time on Task
- Unionization of Teachers
- Value-Added Education
- War on Poverty
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Algebra Project
- American Sign Language
- Art Education
- Bilingual Education
- Career Education
- Civic Education
- Co-Curricular Activities
- Compensatory Education
- Comprehensive High School
- Critical Literacy
- Curriculum Reconceptualists
- Early Childhood Education
- Education of the Deaf
- Education of the Visually Impaired
- Educational Reform during the Great Depression
- Elementary Curricular Reform
- English as a Second Language (ESL)
- Evidence-Based Education (EBE)
- Exodus Mandate Project
- Extracurricular Activities
- Family and Consumer Sciences
- Gary Plan
- General Education
- Gifted Education
- Health Education
- International Baccalaureate Organization
- Life Adjustment Education
- Manual Training
- McGuffey Readers
- Modern Red SchoolHouse
- Music Education
- Native American Education
- New England Primer, The
- Open Education
- Phonics
- Physical Education
- Reading First
- Reading Reform
- Secondary School Curricular Reform
- Sex Education
- Singapore Math
- Social Studies, New
- Vocational Education
- Whole Language
- Diversity
- Black Alliance for Educational Options
- Diversity
- Hispanic/Latino Education
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Issues
- Minorities in Educational Leadership
- Multicultural Education
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
- Race- and Ethnic-Based Schooling
- Racism
- Whiteness
- Women in Educational Leadership
- Finances and Economics
- Government
- Accreditation
- Alternative Licensure
- Boards of Education
- Collective Bargaining
- Community Control
- Consolidation of School Districts
- Flint Approach to Community Involvement
- General Education Board
- Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC)
- Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC)
- Licensure and Certification
- Local Control
- National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
- No Child Left Behind–School Partnerships
- Site-Based Management
- Southern Education Board
- State Departments of Education
- Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC)
- U.S. Department of Education
- Organizations—Advisory
- Alliance for School Choice
- Alliance for the Separation of School & State
- American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
- Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Coalition of Essential Schools
- Concerned Women for America (CWA)
- Council of the Great City Schools
- Education Sector
- Family Research Council
- League of Small Democratic Schools
- National Organization for Women
- New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
- Parent Teacher Association
- People for the American Way
- Organizations—Business and Foundations
- Organizations—Curriculum
- Organizations—Government
- Education Commission of the States (ECS)
- Freedmen's Bureau
- High Schools That Work
- Institute of Education Sciences
- Job Corps
- National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)
- National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Governors Association
- National Science Foundation
- Presidents and Educational Reform
- Teach for America (TFA)
- What Works Clearinghouse
- Organizations—Professional
- Achieve, Inc.
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
- American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
- American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
- Council for American Private Education (CAPE)
- Council for Exceptional Children
- Education Policies Commission
- Education Week
- International Reading Association
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
- National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
- National Association of Independent Schools
- National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
- National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
- National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF)
- National Council for History Education
- National Council for the Social Studies
- National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA)
- National Council of Teachers of English
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)
- National Education Association (NEA)
- National School Boards Association
- National Science Teachers Association
- Progressive Education Association (PEA)
- Schools of Education
- University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)
- Organizations—Think Tanks
- Professional Development
- Assessment
- Autism
- Block Scheduling
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Carnegie Unit
- Character Education
- Class Size
- Coeducation
- Common School Movement
- Competency-Based Education
- Comprehensive School Reform
- Constructivism
- Cooperative Learning
- Critical Theory
- Culturally Relevant Teaching
- Curriculum Controversies
- Developmentally Appropriate Practice
- Differentiated Instruction
- Differentiated Staffing
- Direct Instruction
- Ebonics
- Experiential Learning
- Guidance and School Counseling
- Inquiry-Based Learning
- Learning Packages
- Mastery Learning
- Minimum Competencies
- Modular Scheduling
- Peace Education
- Performance-Based Assessment
- Play School Movement
- Problem-Based Learning
- Programmed Instruction
- Project Learning
- Reading Recovery
- Sesame Street
- Teacher Institutes
- Values Clarification
- Web-Based Teaching
- Winnetka Plan
- Year-Round Schools
- Public Policy
- Academic Freedom
- Affirmative Action
- Agostini v. Felton
- Bennett Law
- Board of Education v. Rowley
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Busing
- Central School District v. Allen
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- De Facto Segregation
- De Jure Segregation
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- Engel v. Vitale
- Equal Education Opportunity
- Everson v. Board of Education
- Federal Educational Reform
- Hobson v. Hansen
- Immigration and Education Reform
- Lau v. Nichols
- Meyer v. Nebraska
- Milliken v. Bradley
- No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)
- Northwest Ordinance
- Old Deluder Satan Law
- Pierce v. Society of Sisters
- Politics of Curriculum
- San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
- School District of Abington Township v. Schempp
- Serrano v. Priest
- Smith-Hughes Act
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
- Title IX
- Vouchers
- Wisconsin v. Yoder
- Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
- Religion and Religious Education
- Amish and Mennonite Schools
- Catholic Schools
- Christian Day Schools
- Creationism
- Edgerton Bible Case
- Episcopal Schools
- Greek Orthodox Schools
- Intelligent Design
- Islamic Schools
- Jewish Schools
- Lemon v. Kurtzman
- Lutheran Schools
- Religion and the Curriculum
- Separation of Church and State
- Seventh-day Adventist Schools
- Society of Friends Schools
- University Consortium for Catholic Education
- Reports
- School Types
- Academies
- Accelerated Schools
- Afrocentric Schools
- Alternative Schools
- Calvinist Schools
- Charter Education
- Charter Schools
- Continuation Schools
- Cristo Rey Schools
- Dame Schools
- District Schools
- Dual Enrollment
- Dunbar High School, Washington, D.C.
- Early College High Schools
- Education of the Deaf
- Effective Schools Movement
- Free School Movement
- Head Start
- Homeschooling and the Home School Legal Defense Association
- Infant Schools
- Junior High School
- Kindergarten
- Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)
- Laboratory Schools
- Lancaster System
- Latin Grammar Schools
- Magnet Schools
- Middle School
- Montessori Schools
- Normal Schools
- Professional Development Schools
- Reform Schools
- Single-Sex Schools
- Success for All
- Tech Prep Education
- Waldorf Schools
- Special Needs
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