Concerning this Founding Father, Rippa noted in 1997 that "Few statesmen in American history have so vigorously strived for an ideal (liberty); perhaps none has so consistently viewed education as the indispensable cornerstone of freedom."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
A leading proponent of common schools, he is widely known as the Father of American Education.
Who is Horace Mann?
100
This New England town was the home of the first American comprehensive high school in 1831.
What is Lowell, Massachusetts?
100
This court case ended with the Supreme Court ruling that the school in question had to remain private, and could not become a state institution.
What is the Dartmouth College case?
100
This study, released in 1928, discouraged the practice of boarding schools and encouraged the construction of day schools that could also serve as community centers.
What is the Meriam Report?
200
These schools, introduced by Quaker Joseph Lancaster, employed one paid teacher who instructed hundreds of students through the use of student teachers chosen for their academic abilities.
What are monitorial schools?
200
It is a voluntary organization sponsoring programs, demonstrations, and lectures for the education and information of its members.
What is a lyceum?
200
These began to appear in urban areaa, generally for the education of students in grades 6, 7, and 8.
What are junior high schools?
200
This gave 30,000 acres of land for each senator and each representative it had in Congress to support at least one college.
What is the Morrill Act of 1862?
200
This Hispanic-American joined other parents in suing the Westminster school district after the school refused to enroll his children in 1944.
Who is Gonzalo Mendez?
300
These schools included teacher training institutions, comprehensive high schools, and military schools.
What are academies?
300
This period in American history brought thousands of citizens out of the country and into the city to work in factories, which contributed greatly to the increase in demand for common schools.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
Per the recommendation from the Comittee of Ten, a student received one of these for each course that met four or five times weekly for one year.
What is a Carnegie unit?
300
These were established in the late 19th century to concentrate on the first two years of higher education.
What are junior colleges?
300
Many of these moved to the South following the civil war to educate newly liberated Blacks.
What are educational foundations?
400
He believed the primary purpose of education should be the inculcation of patriotism, and as a result, an American education rid of European influence.
Who is Noah Webster?
400
He was the first United States commissioner of education.
Who is Henry Barnard?
400
Among these are health, command of functional academic skills, worthy home membership, vocational preparation, citizenship, worthwhile use of leisure time, and ethical character.
What are the seven Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education?
400
In the history of American education, this is the period between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the 20th Century.
What is the Age of the University?
400
He was an influential educator who established the Tuskegee Institute in 1881.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
After leaving the presidency in 1809, Jefferson devoted his talents to developing this university, right down to picking out the bricks and designing the landscape.
What is the University of Virginia?
500
The creation of these education governing bodies coincided with the emergence of common schools.
What are local school districts?
500
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled in this case that the legislature could tax for the support of both elementary and secondary schools.
What is the Kalamazoo case?
500
Among the provisions in this legislation was one which enabled states to establish separate land-grant colleges for Blacks.
What is the Morrill Act of 1890?
500
This influential educator was the first African-American to earn a Ph.D from Harvard.