Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

THIS is part i. of an “Encyclopædia and Dictionary of Education” being issued under the general editorship of Prof. Foster Watson. The work when complete will comprise nearly 2000 large crown quarto ...

Confront a 12-year-old schoolchild with this definition of a candle: A cylinder of combustible substance inclosing a wick to furnish light. No one knows better than Professor Edward Lee Thorndike that ...

The education debates continue with a remarkable paucity of concern about what education should be about, who should decide what it should be about and to what end it serves society. Webster’s ...