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- discipline that is concerned with methods of teaching and learning in schools or school-like environments as opposed to various nonformal and informal means of socialization (e.g., rural development projects and ... [122 Related Articles]
- Education Act
- (from the article "education") The basic national legislation was passed in 1877. The Education Act provided for public elementary education that would be secular, free to age 15, and compulsory to age 13. Because ...
- Education Act
- (from the article "education") ...of local government for both secondary and elementary education. It created new local education authorities and empowered them to provide secondary schools and develop technical education. The Education Act of ...
- Education Act
- (from the article "education") ...1899 an advance was made toward the development of a national system encompassing both elementary and secondary education by creating a Board of Education as the central authority for education. ...
- Education Act
- (from the article "Forster, William Edward") British statesman noted for his Education Act of 1870, which established in Great Britain the elements of a primary school system, and for his term (1880-82) as chief secretary for ...
- Education Act
- (from the article "education") The Education Act of 1944 involved a thorough recasting of the educational system. The Board of Education was replaced by a minister who was to direct and control the local ...
- Education and Science, Department of
- (from the article "education") Ultimate authority for education is at the national level, with the Department of Education and Science (formerly the Ministry of Education) headed by the secretary of state for education and ...
- Education City
- (from the article "Qatar") Adding to its already-thriving Education City, which showcased branch campuses of leading Western universities, Qatar unveiled plans for building an equally ambitious multibillion-dollar Energy City, which would serve as a ...
- Education for All Handicapped Children Act
- (from the article "education") ...going has been difficult. In 1958 Congress appropriated $1 million to help prepare teachers of mentally retarded children. Thenceforward, federal aid for the handicapped steadily increased. With the Education for ...
- education novel
- a genre popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in which a plan of education was set forth for a young person. The education novel was similar to ...
- Education, Bureau of
- (from the article "Eaton, John, Jr.") ...to Memphis, Tenn., where he received a two-year appointment in 1867 as state superintendent of public instruction. In 1870 President Grant appointed him commissioner of the recently created U.S. Bureau ...
- Education, Department of
- (from the article "education") ...years later the Morrill Act disbursed many thousands of acres to enable the states to promote a "liberal and practical education." Soon thereafter, the government created the federal Department of ...
- education, philosophy of
- philosophical reflection on the nature, aims, and problems of education. The philosophy of education is Janus-faced, looking both inward to the parent discipline of philosophy and outward to educational practice. ... [16 Related Articles]
- Educational Depository
- (from the article "Ryerson, Egerton") ...1876. He was largely responsible for the creation of the Provincial Normal School in Toronto to provide professional training of teachers. Ryerson also saw to the establishment of the provincial ...
- educational psychology
- theoretical and research branch of modern psychology, concerned with the learning processes and psychological problems associated with the teaching and training of students. The educational psychologist studies the cognitive development ... [6 Related Articles]
- educational system
- (from the article "Christianity") The Christian church created the bases of the Western system of education. From its beginning the Christian community faced external and internal challenges to its faith, which it met by ...
- educing
- (from the article "hydraulic mining") ...is the process of breaking up material and suspending it in a slurry. This is often done by using a large water cannon called a giant or monitor. The process ...
- eduction of correlates
- (from the article "thought") ...to be supplied must bear to the cue stimulus. The correct answer is associated with the schema as a whole and not with its components separately. Selz's complex completion resembles ...
- eduction of relations
- (from the article "thought") ...completion resembles the "eduction of correlates" that the British psychologist Charles E. Spearman saw as a primary constituent of intellectual functioning, its complement being "eduction of relations"-that is, recognition of ...
- Edward
- Anglo-Saxon king in England, the son of Alfred the Great. As ruler of the West Saxons, or Wessex, from 899 to 924, Edward extended his authority over almost all of ... [5 Related Articles]
- Edward
- king of Portugal whose brief reign (1433-38) witnessed a strengthening of the monarchy through reform of royal land-grant laws, a continuation of voyages of discovery, and a military disaster in ... [2 Related Articles]
- Edward
- king of England from 1042 to 1066. Although he is often portrayed as a listless, ineffectual monarch overshadowed by powerful nobles, Edward preserved much of the dignity of the crown ... [10 Related Articles]
- Edward
- king of England from 975 to 978. His reign was marked by a reaction against the promonastic policies of his father and predecessor, King Edgar (reigned 959-975). Upon Edgar's death ...
- Edward
- son of King John de Balliol of Scotland and claimant to the title of King of Scots, who was crowned in September 1332. Expelled in December 1332, he was restored ... [4 Related Articles]
- Edward and Sophie, Earl and Countess of Wessex
- On June 19, 1999, Prince Edward, the youngest child of the U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth II, married Sophie Rhys-Jones, a public relations consultant. The couple insisted it was an informal, family ...
- Edward and Sophie, Earl and Countess of Wessex
- On June 19, 1999, Prince Edward, the youngest child of the U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth II, married Sophie Rhys-Jones, a public relations consultant. The couple insisted it was an informal, family ...
- Edward and Sophie, Earl and Countess of Wessex
- On June 19, 1999, Prince Edward, the youngest child of the U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth II, married Sophie Rhys-Jones, a public relations consultant. The couple insisted it was an informal, family ...
- Edward I
- son of Henry III and king of England in 1272-1307, during a period of rising national consciousness. He strengthened the crown and Parliament against the old feudal nobility. He subdued ... [35 Related Articles]
- Edward II
- king of England from 1307 to 1327. Although he was a man of limited capability, he waged a long, hopeless campaign to assert his authority over powerful barons. [22 Related Articles]
- Edward III
- king of England from 1327 to 1377, who led England into the Hundred Years' War with France. The descendants of his seven sons and five daughters contested the throne for ... [29 Related Articles]
- Edward III
- play in five acts sometimes attributed to William Shakespeare, though without much evidence other than the resemblances of this play to Shakespeare's early history plays and an occasional passage. It ... [1 Related Articles]
- Edward III
- (from the article "Edward III") The play depicts Edward III's great victories in France, especially at Crecy (1346) and Poitiers (1356), during the 14th century. Edward is portrayed as a heroic king, and his son ...
- Edward IV
- king of England from 1461 until October 1470 and again from April 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a leading participant in the Yorkist-Lancastrian conflict known as the ... [18 Related Articles]
- Edward IV
- (from the article "Henry VI, Part 3") ...more, than tigers of Hyrcania." As Henry drifts wistfully through the action, lamenting his fate, York's sons consolidate their power. The Lancastrians briefly regain the ascendancy after Edward IV (the ...
- Edward P. Allis Company
- (from the article "West Allis") ...within its boundaries in 1891 of the annual Wisconsin State Fair and by the arrival of streetcar lines from Milwaukee in 1894. It became an industrial centre; in 1902, after ...
- Edward The Black Prince
- son and heir apparent of Edward III of England and one of the outstanding commanders during the Hundred Years' War, winning his major victory at the Battle of Poitiers (1356). ... [10 Related Articles]
- Edward V
- king of England from April to June 1483, who was deposed and possibly murdered by King Richard III. [3 Related Articles]
- Edward VI
- king of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553. [11 Related Articles]
- Edward VII
- king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions and emperor of India from 1901, an immensely popular and affable sovereign and a leader ... [6 Related Articles]
- Edward VII Peninsula
- (from the article "Ross Ice Shelf") ...James Clark Ross, rises in places to 160 or 200 feet (50 or 60 m) high and stretches about 500 miles (800 km) between fixed "anchor points" on Ross Island ...
- Edward VIII
- prince of Wales (1911-36) and king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions and emperor of India from Jan. 20 to Dec. 10, ... [5 Related Articles]
- Edward, Lake
- one of the great lakes of the Western Rift Valley in eastern Africa. It lies astride the border of Congo (Kinshasa) and Uganda at an elevation of 2,992 feet (912 ... [5 Related Articles]
- Edwardes, George
- (from the article "musical") ...of French Romantic ballet and German melodrama, and it attracted patrons of opera and serious drama, as well as those of burlesque shows. In the late 1890s the British showman ...
- Edwardian era
- (from the article "international relations") This was precisely what Britain did. The Edwardian era (1901-10) was one of intense concern over the decline of Britain's naval and commercial dominance. German firms shouldered aside the British ...
- Edwards Plateau
- (from the article "cave") ...southwestern United States has very diverse karst regions. For example, West Texas, western Oklahoma, and eastern New Mexico have extensive areas of doline karst in gypsum with many small caves. ...
- Edwards v. Aguilard
- (from the article "Scalia, Antonin") ...and consistency. According to Scalia, the same freedom of speech that belongs to abortion opponents also extends to those who would desecrate the American flag. In his dissent in EdwardsAguilard ...
- Edwards v. California
- (from the article "Jackson, Robert H(oughwout)") In 1941 Roosevelt named Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. His early opinions reflect his liberal and nationalistic views. In Edwards v. California (1941), which declared unconstitutional California's "Okie" law ...
- Edwards, Alfred George
- the first archbishop of Wales, who sought successfully to create a native church more reflective of Welsh culture than was the Anglican Church.
- Edwards, Bob
- (from the article "Media and Publishing") Also helping satellite was the arrival of Bob Edwards, the longtime host of NPR's flagship Morning Edition broadcast. Edwards began hosting an eponymous interview show on XM Satellite Radio in ...
- Edwards, Carolyn P.
- (from the article "personality") ...of persistent lying, stealing, vandalism, and fighting, although these differences do not appear until after about the age of three. A study by the American anthropologists Beatrice B. Whiting and ...
- Edwards, Edwin W.
- (from the article "Louisiana") ...avowed white supremacist and former head of the KKK-was elected to a term (1989-93) in the Louisiana House of Representatives and has run for other state and federal offices. Edwin ...
- Edwards, Gareth
- Welsh rugby union football player who led the Welsh national team that dominated European play from the mid-1960s through the '70s. Edwards was the best player on what may have ...
- Edwards, Hilton
- (from the article "MacLiammoir, Micheal") ...Darling in Peter Pan. He traveled and studied art throughout Europe, eventually settling in Dublin, where in 1928 he cofounded the Gate Theatre with the English producer ...
- Edwards, John
- U.S. senator, who in 2004 was the running mate of John Kerry, the Democratic Party's nominee for president. [4 Related Articles]
- Edwards, Jonathan
- greatest theologian and philosopher of British American Puritanism, stimulator of the religious revival known as the "Great Awakening," and one of the forerunners of the age of Protestant missionary expansion ... [10 Related Articles]
- Edwards, Jorge
- Chilean writer, literary critic, and diplomat who gained notoriety with the publication of Persona non grata (1973; Eng. trans. Persona non grata), a memoir of his experiences as the Chilean ... [1 Related Articles]
- Edwards, Lewis
- Welsh educator and minister of the Calvinistic Methodist Church of Wales whose literary and theological essays greatly influenced the development of Welsh culture. [1 Related Articles]
- Edwards, Ralph Livingstone
- American broadcasting pioneer (b. June 13, 1913, Merino, Colo.-d. Nov. 16, 2005, Hollywood, Calif.), created and emceed two of the staple programs of American television in the 1950s: Truth or ... [1 Related Articles]
- Edwards, Robert
- (from the article "Steptoe, Patrick") ...research on sterilization and infertility and published Laparoscopy in Gynaecology (1967), concerning the use of the laparoscope, a narrow tube with a built-in fibre light.
- Edwards, Sir George Robert
- British aircraft designer (b. July 9, 1908, Chingford, Essex, Eng.-d. March 2, 2003, Guildford, Surrey, Eng.), designed a number of airplanes, notably the Viscount turboprop airliner, and in the 1970s ...
- Edwards, Sir Owen Morgan
- Welsh writer and educator who greatly influenced the revival of Welsh literature and the development of Welsh national consciousness.
- Edwards, Teresa
- American basketball player, who was the most decorated player in the history of the U.S. national team. From her point-guard position, Edwards guided the U.S. national team to gold medals ...
- Edwards, Thomas Charles
- (from the article "Edwards, Lewis") ...faculties, Edwards produced works on Goethe and Goronwy Owen and translated a number of English hymns into Welsh, including "Onward Christian Soldiers." The best known of his children, Thomas Charles ...
- Edwards, Vince
- U.S. television and film actor who was best known for his 1961-66 stint as the handsome but surly, no-nonsense neurosurgeon Ben Casey on the television show of the same name ...
- Edwards, William
- (from the article "bridge") ...His works included the Pont de Neuilly (1774), over the Seine, the Pont Sainte-Maxence (1785), over the Oise, and the beautiful Pont de la Concorde (1791), also over the Seine. ...
- Edwin
- Anglo-Saxon king of Northumbria from 616 to 633. He was the most powerful English ruler of his day and the first Christian king of Northumbria. [4 Related Articles]
- Edwin Smith papyrus
- (c. 1600 BC), ancient Egyptian medical treatise, believed to be a copy of a work dating from c. 3000 BC. Apparently intended as a textbook on surgery, it begins with ... [1 Related Articles]
- Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den
- Dutch biblical, genre, and portrait painter, a gifted and favourite pupil of Rembrandt (1635-40), to whom he remained a close friend. His usual style is based so closely on that ...
- Eeden, Frederik Willem van
- Dutch writer and physician whose works reflect his lifelong search for a social and ethical philosophy.
- Eeg, Harald Rosenlow
- (from the article "Literature") Acclaimed youth literature author Harald Rosenlow Eeg was awarded the Brage Prize for Youth Literature for Yatzy, a novel portraying a foster child's struggles. Princess Martha Louise's Hvorfor de kongelige ...
- Eekhoud, Georges
- one of the first important Belgian regionalist novelists. [1 Related Articles]
- eel
- any of more than 500 species of fish of the order Anguilliformes. [5 Related Articles]
- eelgrass
- any of two different groups of ribbonlike aquatic plants. Vallisneria species (family Hydrocharitaceae), also called tape grass, are native to temperate and tropical waters; V. spiralis, often grown in aquariums, ... [1 Related Articles]
- eelpout
- any of more than 250 species of elongated marine fishes of the family Zoarcidae, found in cold waters and abundant in Arctic and Antarctic regions. Eelpouts are thick-lipped, eel-shaped fishes ...
- eelworm
- any of several worms of the phylum Nematoda, so called because they resemble miniature eels. The term is most often applied to smaller nematodes that are either free-living or parasitic ...
- Eemian Interglacial Stage
- major division of Pleistocene time and deposits in Europe (the Pleistocene Epoch began about 1,600,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago). The Eemian Interglacial followed the Saale Glacial ... [1 Related Articles]
- Eemian Sea
- former body of water that flooded much of northern Europe and essentially made an island of Scandinavia. This marine transgression occurred during the Eemian interglacial stage (130,000 to 115,000 years ...
- Efate
- main island of Vanuatu, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It is volcanic in origin and occupies an area of 353 square miles (915 square km). Its highest peak is Mount ...
- Efe
- (from the article "Bambuti") The Bambuti is a collective name for four populations of Ituri Pygmies-the Sua, Aka, Efe, and Mbuti-each of which has formed a loose economic and cultural interdependency with an agriculturalist ...
- Efe mask
- (from the article "African dance") Often there is no clear distinction between ritual celebration and social recreation in dance performances; one purpose can merge into the other, as in the appearance of the great Efe ...
- effect lag
- (from the article "government economic policy") The effect lag is the amount of time between the time action is taken and an effect is realized. Monetary policy involves longer delays than fiscal policy; the time between ...
- effective atomic number
- number that represents the total number of electrons surrounding the nucleus of a metal atom in a metal complex. It is composed of the metal atom's electrons and the bonding ... [1 Related Articles]
- effective atomic number rule
- (from the article "effective atomic number") The English chemist Nevil V. Sidgwick made the observation, since known as the EAN rule, that in a number of metal complexes the metal atom tends to surround itself with ...
- effective demand
- (from the article "economic stabilizer") ...away from these inappropriate levels will get started. This is the flaw in the traditional conception of the operation of the price system that prompted Keynes to introduce the concept ...
- effective incidence
- (from the article "government economic policy") The incidence of taxes is a subject that has generated much academic debate. It is usual to distinguish between the legal incidence of a tax and its effective, or final, ...
- effective isotropic radiated power
- (from the article "telecommunications media") ...of an EHF radio wave at 300 gigahertz is only 1 millimetre. An important measure of the efficiency with which a transmitting antenna delivers its power to a remote receiving ...
- effective population size
- in genetics, the size of a breeding population, a factor that is determined by the number of parents, the average number of children per family, and the extent to which ...
- effective procedure
- (from the article "formal logic") ...though designed to ensure unambiguous sense for the wffs of PC under the intended interpretation, are themselves stated without any reference to interpretation and in such a way that there ...
- effective rate of protection
- (from the article "international trade") The effective rate of protection is a more complex concept: consider that the same product-clothing-costs $100 on international markets. The material that is imported to make the clothing (material inputs) ...
- effective stress
- (from the article "solids, mechanics of") ...soils and rocks often takes place in situations for which the deforming mass is infiltrated by groundwater, and Austrian-American civil engineer Karl Terzaghi in the 1920s developed the concept of ...
- effective temperature
- (from the article "Neptune") ...radiated by Neptune is equivalent to that of a nonreflecting sphere of the same size with a uniform temperature of 59.3 K (−353 °F, −214 °C). This temperature is called ...
- effector
- (from the article "nervous system") In more-complex protozoans, specialized cellular structures, or organelles, serve as receptors of stimulus and as effectors of response. Receptors include stiff sensory bristles in ciliates and the light-sensitive eyespots of ...
- effector
- (from the article "information processing") ...of the short-term memory. The memory stores symbolic expressions, including those that represent composite information processes, called programs. The two other components, the receptor and the effector, are input and ...
- effector cell
- (from the article "immune system") Two types of cells are produced by clonal selection-effector cells and memory cells. Effector cells are the relatively short-lived activated cells that defend the body in an immune response. Effector ...
- Effelsberg Radio Telescope
- (from the article "Some important radio telescopes") Other large, fully steerable, filled-aperture radio telescopes include the Max Planck Institut fur Radioastronomie 100-metre- (330-foot-) diameter antenna near Effelsberg, Ger.; the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) ...
- Effen, Justus van
- Dutch essayist and journalist whose straightforward didactic pieces, modelled on foreign examples, had a wholesome influence on the contemporary Dutch fashion of rococo writing. His other occupations included private tutor, ... [1 Related Articles]
- efferent arteriole
- (from the article "renal system") ...is believed to be involved in the secretion of renin (see below The role of hormones in renal function). They are then reconstituted near the point of entry of the ...
- efferent impulse
- (from the article "nervous system") ...axon until the message, or input, reaches another neuron, which in turn is excited.) The interneuron-adjustor selects, interprets, or modifies the input from the receptor and sends an outgoing, or ...
- efferent nerve
- (from the article "sexual behaviour, human") ...central system, while the peripheral system is composed of (1) the cerebrospinal nerves that go to the spinal cord (afferent nerves), transmitting sensory stimuli and those that come from the ...
- efferent nerve fibre
- (from the article "nervous system") ...nuclei. Portions of the central nervous system in which unmyelinated neurons and neuroglia predominate are called gray matter; areas in which myelinated neurons dominate are called white matter. Efferent, or ...
- efferent neuron
- (from the article "nervous system") ...or input, reaches another neuron, which in turn is excited.) The interneuron-adjustor selects, interprets, or modifies the input from the receptor and sends an outgoing, or efferent, impulse to an ...
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