Dates
What year did the Civil War end?
1865
What did Friedrich Froebel do?
Influenced the kindergarten.
When was the first kindergarten founded?
1837
When did leaders in Georgia found their education association?
1865
What does NEA stand for?
National Education Association
The first Compulsory Education law was passed in Massachusetts, in what year?
A. 1900
B. 1852
C. 1930
B. 1852
What did Elizabeth Palmer Peabody do?
Opened the first English-speaking kindergarten in the US
What does kindergarten mean?
"The garden where children grow"
Who established the Freedmen's Bureau?
Congress
Why was the AFT created?
to increase teachers' salaries and benefits
When was the first English-speaking kindergarten opened?
A. 1860
B. 1855
C. 1873
A. 1860
What did Booker T. Washington do?
Helped to found the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Why was kindergarten created?
To develop the motor skills and self directed activity of children before they start official elementary schooling.
Why was the Freedmen's Bureau created?
To provide the foundations for education for former slaves
What did the Committee of Ten discuss?
subjects in the high school curriculum
A. 1732
B. 2006
C. 1880
C. 1880
What did William E. DuBois do?
A founder of the NAACP
Where was the first public kindergarten established?
St. Louis
What is the significance of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute of Virginia?
It was one of the first institutes of higher education for African Americans
What was the purpose of the Committee of Fifteen?
To examine the elementary curriculum
When was the National Education Association (NEA) founded?
A. 1842
B. 1857
C. 1868
B. 1857
What did Jane Addams do?
Founded Hull House
How old are children in kindergarten?
5-6
What is the Tuskegee idea?
That correct education starts at the bottom, and expands naturally as the necessities of people expand
What is the purpose of the 7 cardinal principles?
provide the focus for schooling at all levels