Educating the Colonies
In the colonies, they were responsible for the basic education of the students.
What are their parents?
This illustrated textbook of religious readings was published in 1690 and was he main instructional textbook for over 100 years.
What is the New England Primer and Child Requirements?
In what century was education no longer for rich white families
A.) 19th century
B.) 20th century
B.) 20th century
Colleges were shifting away from just academics and focusing on ____________________________________.
The needs of students in the working world and their preparedness for it
K-12 Schools that receive government money but are freed from the usual constraints of public schools in exchange for increased accountability for academic achievement, delineated in the school's charter.
What are Charter Schools?
They established the first schools, with classes made up of mostly boys.
What are the Pilgrims and the Puritans?
These parochial schools were established by the Catholics, Methodists, Quakers, and other religious groups and did not receive any public support or funding.
What were private venture schools?
Why were missionary schools made?
To force Native Americans to convert to christianity and strip them of their culture
What was William Rainer Harper's Idea?
Community Colleges
The education of children at home by their parents
What is home schooling?
Woman and housewives ran these independent units of education in their homes, providing academic instruction to boys and girls for a fee.
What were Dame schools?
Benjamin Franklin established the first school for higher learning that offered a broad range of subjects and practical training.
What is the Academy?
Progressive Education Movement was lead by who?
A.) John Dewey
B.) Professor Jane Bean-Folkes
C.) Thomas Jefferson
D.) William Rainer Harper
A.) John Dewey
Who created the Progressive Education Association in 1919?
John Dewey
A competition instituted by the federal government that provides an example of how the federal government can use the promise of federal funds to insert itself into state and local school operations
What is the Race to the Top Competition?
This author of these books believed education and religion were equally important and emphasized truth, character building and goodness.
What are the “The McGuffey Readers”?
After the Revolutionary War, Noah Webster believed that a common American language was needed to bind the nation together so he wrote this book.
What is the American Spelling Book?
Was written by William Holmes McGuffy and helped to establish moral values in the United States and encouraged readers to become good citizens of the future
What is the McGuffey Readers
What did Robert Hutchin believe ?
*HINT* Vocational Approach
A set of curriculum standards that the states were encouraged to adopt
What is Common Core?
This law required parents to make sure their children knew the principles of religion and the rules of the commonwealth
What is the Massachusetts Law of 1642?
This law specified that all townships in the Northwest Territories would be divided and one would be set aside for public schools.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Who was the "Father of Universal Education" ?
Horace Mann
Vocational schools were popular until after what?
*HINT* UNION
The focus was returned to math and science.
Vocational schools faded out.
This association was formed in 1857 and focused on the growth and advancements of the teaching community.
What is the National Education Association?