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- Education [r]: Learning, teaching, research and scholarship activities for the purpose of organizing, presenting and acquiring knowledge, skills or social norms. [e]
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- Homeschooling in the United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Unschooling [r]: Methods of education that do not resemble schools, primarily indicating a lack of heavy reliance on textbooks or time spent at desks, often with parents aiding the child in exploring his or her interests. [e]
- Unit studies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Montessori method [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Waldorf schools [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Charter school [r]: (US) A publicly funded school established by parents, teachers, or interested community groups and operating independently under the terms of a contract with a local or national governmental entity. [e]
- School voucher [r]: (US) Financial aid extended to parents of school age children which can then be used to offset expenses of their children's education at any school of their choice, public or private. [e]
- McGuffey Readers [r]: A set of highly influential school textbooks used in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the elementary grades in the United States. [e]
- Pierce v. Society of Sisters [r]: A 1925 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which it was decided that an Oregon state voter initiative which effectively required parents in the state to send their children to a public school was unconstitutional as it violated the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [e]
- Meyer v. Nebraska [r]: 1923 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a Nebraska law forbidding the teaching of modern languages other than English to young schoolchildren. [e]
- Runyon v. McCrary [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Maria Montessori [r]: (1870-1952) Italian educator who developed the theory and teaching methodology of the Montessori method of child rearing and teaching. [e]
- Charlotte Mason [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rudolf Steiner [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Holt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Brougham [r]: (18 September 1778 - 7 May 1868) British statesman who became Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (1830 - 1834). [e]
- Progressive education [r]: Pedagogical movement rooted in common experience, and democratic and inclusive in outlook. [e]
- Logic [r]: The study of the standards and practices of correct argumentation. [e]