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Definition of Education department
1. Noun. The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979.
Category relationships: Didactics, Education, Educational Activity, Instruction, Pedagogy, Teaching
Generic synonyms: Executive Department
Derivative terms: Educate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Education Department
Literary usage of Education department
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Seventh-Day Adventists General Conference. Dept. of Education (1912)
"17 NATURE MONTH BY MONTH FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS , FIRST PUBLISHED AS A SERIAL
IN THE HOME education department OF THE MAGAZINE CHRISTIAN EDUCATOR. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"These corporations are subject, however, to the provisions of the Education Law
and the jurisdiction of the education department. The academics or secondary ..."
3. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1888)
"Papers of the education department: i. The Opportunities of America— FB Sanborn.
2. Address — T. W, Higginson. 3. Pedagogy in American Colleges — Professor ..."