Head Start is a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that offers comprehensive education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. Head Start began in 1964 and was later updated by the Head Start Act of 1981. It is the …
School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools. In the United States, public schools are operated by school districts, which are independent special-purpose governments, or dependent school systems, which are under the control of state and local government. A …
Friends schools are institutions that offer an education based on the beliefs and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). This article tackles about schools currently or historically related with the Society of Friends, regardless of their current degree of affiliation. Friends schools vary greatly both in their interpretation of …
School Democracy All aspects of operating a Sudbury School are determined by the weekly School Meeting, modeled after the traditional New England town meeting. School Meeting passes, amends and repeals school rules, manages the school’s budget, and settles on hiring and firing of staff. Each individual present — whether student …
A Sudbury school is a school that practices a form of democratic education in which students individually decide what to do with their time, and learn as a by-product of ordinary experience rather than adopting a descriptive educational syllabus or standardized instruction by classes following a prescriptive curriculum. Students have …
Cuisenaire rods give students a hands-on elementary school way to learn elementary math concepts, such as the four basic arithmetic operations and working with fractions. In the early 1950s, Caleb Gattegno popularized the réglettes. This is a set of colored number rods created by the Belgian primary school teacher Georges …
Online tutoring refers to the process by which knowledge is communicated from a tutor or knowledge provider or expert to a student or knowledge recipient over the Internet. Online tutoring has been around almost as long as the Internet and takes the following form: Tutoring via email and knowledge content …
The Helen Doron method, developed by linguist and educator Helen Doron, was one of the first early English educational systems in the world. In operation since 1986, children as young as three months learn English with this method, just like they learn their mother tongue. Over one million children have …
Umbrella school is an alternative education school which serves to supervise the home schooling of children to fulfill government-mandated requirements regarding education. Umbrella schools differ greatly in what they offer and cost. Some offer group classes, a defined curriculum, sports, field trips, standardized testing, and more. Others exist only to …
Place-based education is sometimes called pedagogy of place, place-based learning, experiential education, community-based education, education for sustainability, environmental education or more rarely, service learning. It is an educational philosophy developed initially by The Orion Society, a Massachusetts based nonprofit organization, as well as Professor David Sobel, Project Director at Antioch …
