Colonial and Early U.S. Schooling: Foundations for an (un)Educated America
Catherine E. Beecher advocated for women to fulfill this role in society.
What are school teachers?
This style of test was used to quickly sort students during a large immigration wave, failing to make adjustments according to the child’s primary language.
What are IQ tests?
The belief that intellectual performance is tied to genetics.
What is hereditarianism?
Number of states in the US in which corporal punishment is legal.
What are 19 states?
Historical debt, economic debt, sociopolitical debt, moral debt.
What are the parts of the education debt?
Boarding schools used to remove Native children from their Native context, forcing assimilation and religious conversion.
What are the Indian Boarding Schools?
This group directly opposed the Administrative Progressives and strived to increase the power of teachers.
Theory that students, usually of low-income or racial and ethnic minority backgrounds, fail in school because they have “internal defects that thwart their learning process”.
What is deficit thinking?
Purpose of education during the No Child Left Behind era from 2003-2010
What is to close the achievement gap?
What is one identity/group that Thomas Jefferson excluded from his view of schooling for all citizens?
What are women and/or enslaved people?
Noah Webster’s The American Spelling Book is credited with creating a uniquely American form of _______.
What is the English language?
The group that recommended a standardized curriculum for high school students.
Who is the Committee of 10?
Term that describes the type of school created in efforts to end race-based segregation in American education.
What are integration schools?
School subject that was of heightened significance in American education during the Cold War Era, 1950-1980.
What is science?
The view that education is a private good.
What is social mobility?
The individual who believed that education was the best protection against tyranny.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
An opponent of John Dewey who advocated for vocational schools and social efficiency.
Who is David Snedden?
Federal district court case that ruled that it was unconstitutional to segregate Mexican American students on the basis of their appearance, last name, or by gerrymandering.
What is Mendez v. Westminster?
President when the 1983 A Nation at Risk report was published by the National Commission on Excellence in Education.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
The 1965 law put into motion by Lyndon Johnson that attempted to create an equitable learning experience for all K-12 students
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)