Who directed Native American education until the mid 1970's?
Bureau of Indian Affairs
100
The type of schooling in which housewives offered to take in children to whom she would teach a little reading and writing, basic prayers, and religious beliefs was called ...
Dame schools
100
What is known as the earliest secondary institution?
Latin Grammar School
100
Tuskegee University was originally founded in 1881 by what famous African American educator?
Booker T. Washington
100
Which educational thinker created learning materials designed to develop sensory and muscular coordination?
Maria Montessori
200
Who would have most likely been a student in a late 1600's elementary school?
A white, upper class male
200
In 1647 the Old Deluder Satan Act strengthened a Massachusetts law requiring parents to educate their children by requiring them to pay a man to teach reading and writing with schools known as ...
Town Schools
200
In which region of colonial America did females likely have the greatest educational opportunity?
Middle Colonies
200
What is the 1896 Supreme Court decision that upheld "separate but equal" as constitutional?
Plessy v. Ferguson
200
The Progressive Education Association maintained that schools should help to ...
Make the connection between the school and the real world
300
During the 1920's, which invention helped consolidate one room school houses around the country in to centrally located, modern facilities?
The automobile (and the school bus)
300
A famous illustrated book composed of religious texts and other readings used for at least one hundred years after the first edition of 1690 was called ...
The New England Primer
300
Which U.S. city created the first public English high school?
Boston
300
What religious group established some of the first schools for slave children?
Quakers
300
What is the term used to describe segregation which results primarily from residential patterns?
De Facto Segregation
400
Which colonial area was characterized by private, family-based education, generally relying on tutors?
Communities of the South
400
Horace Mann argued in favor of the common school because he believed that the common school would ...
Help forge a national identity
400
Which U.S. Supreme Court case set the precedent for financing public high schools?
Kalamazoo Case
400
What 1954 Supreme Court decision overturned "separate but equal"?
Brown v. Board of Education
400
Who is the educational reformer of the 1800's who championed for the Common School and argued that teachers should be intellectual, moral, and cultural models for their communities?
Horace Mann
500
Which elementary schools were licensed by the civil government, but not protected or financed by it?
Private venture schools
500
Which European thinker introduced the first kindergarten or “children’s garden whose goal was the cultivation of the child’s self-development, self-activity, and socialization?
Friedrich Froebel
500
Which type of secondary institution was the first to accept female students?
English Grammar School
500
W.E.B. Du Bois, a black intellectual and scholar, was one of the first minority students to receive a doctorate from what American University?
Harvard
500
Which educational thinker stressed the importance of children learning through their senses and concrete situations?