Rochester Plan
A much-heralded but largely unsuccessful 1987 program to reform public school education in Rochester, New York.
View ArticleJohn D. Rockefeller (1839–1937)
Oil magnate whose personal fortune reached $1 billion and whose philanthropic contributions totaled...
View ArticleRockefeller University
A unique graduate university in New York City, founded by oil magnate John D.
View ArticleRole playing
A common technique used by psychologists and, with the permission and supervision of the school psychologist, by teachers attempting to give students a broad understanding of major social problems.
View ArticleRolling admissions
A system whereby a college sets no fixed date for its admissions decisions, accepting applications at any time during the school year and responding to applicants within 30 days.
View ArticleRoman Catholic Church
The largest, single, organized Christian church, made up of nearly 1 billion communicants who acknowledge the supreme authority of the bishop of Rome—the pope (or father)—in matters spiritual and, for...
View ArticleRomance languages
A group of modern languages derived primarily from Low Latin and spoken by about 400 million people, largely in Europe.
View ArticleFranklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)
Thirty-second president of the United States and the only president to be elected to four terms in office.
View ArticleROTC
The popularly used abbreviation (pronounced “Rot-C”) for the RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS, which prepares college...
View ArticleRote counting
A recital of numbers in order and by memory, with little or no understanding of the meaning of each number.
View ArticleRough Rock Demonstration School
One of several schools that the BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS operated on Indian reservations for American Indian children in the 1960s.
View ArticleJean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
Swiss-born philosopher, author, political scientist,musicologist and one of the most influentialminds in the so-called Age of Enlightenment.
View ArticleRoxbury, Massachusetts
Site of one of the first schools in the American colonies, where a free school was established by consensus of the residents in 1645, 10 years after the first school had been established in Boston.
View ArticleRoyal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
A scientific organization officially founded in 1660, but convening informally beginning in 1645 at regular meetings of England’s leading scientists.
View ArticleHarold O. Rugg (1886–1960)
American educator, author and leader of the RECONSTRUCTIONISM movement that sought to use education to reform the American social system during the devastating economic depression of the 1930s.
View ArticleRules and regulations
A codification ofpermissible and impermissible student behaviorand academic effort in a school or collegeand the consequent rewards and discipline forsuch behavior.
View ArticleRumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR)
A U.S. Defense Department lawsuit challenging the right of 38 law schools to bar military recruiters from their campuses.
View ArticleRunaways
however, are away from 12 to as many as 50hours, 10% from 52 to 100 hours, and 13% formore than 100; 9% simply disappear.
View ArticleRural education
An increasingly archaic term referring to the imagined disparities between educational quality in isolated rural communities and small towns and in larger suburbs and cities.
View ArticleBenjamin Rush (1745–1813)
American physician, statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence and champion of universal public education. A founder of Dickinson College in 1773, Rush’s long-term influence on American...
View ArticleSocial promotion
A term from the 1930s and 1940s referring to the advancement of students to the next higher grade in public elementary and secondary schools on the basis of age rather than academic achievement.
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