People
Policies/Reforms
Ideas
Quotes
People & Things
100
This famous American philosopher is sometimes called the father of progressive education.
Who was John Dewey?
100
This school district--described in your readings and in the film about Progressive Education--became well-known for a certain type of progressive plan that could be used in whole school districts.
What was Gary, Indiana?
100
Scientific management
What was a main idea held by the Administrative Progressives about how schools should be operated?
100
This former president of Harvard said: “It is a curious fact that we Americans habitually underestimate the capacity of pupils at almost every stage of education from the primary school through the university.”
Who was Charles Eliot?
100
This physician visited urban school districts in the early 1890s, describing many schools as mechanical and inhumane.
Who was Joseph Rice?
200
This faculty member at Stanford University was a major popularizer of IQ testing
Who was Lewis Terman?
200
This act, which became law in 1862, made public land available to states to sell, with the profits going toward establishing and supporting public colleges and universities.
What was the Morrill Land-Grant College Act?
200
This analytic concept helps explain how and why white Americans encouraged westward migration, touted the "civilizing" influence of education, and erased Native American land rights and history.
What is "settler colonialism"?
200
This educator argued that there was "a great army of incapables" who were incapable of pursuing a college preparatory curriculum. He said that to force all students into "one mold would be wasteful, undemocratic, and pedagogically immoral."
Who was G. Stanley Hall?
200
This person was a friend of Ella Flagg Young's and a founder of the American Federation of Teachers.
Who was Margaret Haley?
300
In writing about Eastern European immigrants, this person wrote: "Illiterate, docile, lacking in self-reliance and initiative, and not possessing the Anglo-Teutonic conceptions of law, order, and government, their coming has served to dilute tremendously our national stock, and to corrupt our civic life."
Who was Ellwood Cubberley?
300
This law, passed in 1958, provided support for student testing, counseling, and the improvement of math and science instruction.
What was NDEA? (The National Defense Education Act)
300
The impact of this social and economic condition on children led many reformers to call for significant changes to education in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
What was poverty?
300
This creator of the curriculum project MACOS said: “We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.”
Who was Jerome Bruner?
300
The Soviet Union sent this satellite into space in 1957, launching the space race with the Americans.
What was Sputnik?
400
He argued the schools should build a new public order.
Who was George Counts?
400
Project-based learning is often seen as a pedagogical technique popular with this group of educational reformers.
Who were the Pedagogical Progressives?
400
This chart represented their educational aspirations.
Who were the administrative progressives?
400
This group stated: “Every subject which is taught at all in the secondary schools should be taught in the same way and to the same extent to every pupil so long as he pursues it, no matter what the probable destination of the pupil may be, or at what point his education should cease.”
What is the Committee of Ten?
400
This Chicago factory inspector wondered why schools couldn't be better adapted to children, rather than force the child to be adapted to the school.
Who was Helen Todd?
500
The person became famous as the superintendent of the Winnetka Public Schools.
Who was Carleton Washburne?
500
IQ testing was one of their favored reforms.
Who were the admininstrative progressives?
500
That children should play an active role in determining the course and content of their education was a core idea of these reformers.
Who were the pedagogical progressives?
500
He said “Whatever exists at all exists in some amount."
Who was Edward L. Thorndike?
500
The differentiated curriculum--or tracking--was one of their major solutions to the problem of student failure
Who were the adminstrative progressives?
600
This author of "Educational Wastelands" argued that schools were forsaking their intellectual mission.
Who was Arthur Bestor?
600
Denver, Colorado
What school district became famous for use of teachers in a district-wide process of curriculum revision?
600
"fads and frills"
What did critics of Progressive Education argue were too prevalent in the progressive curriculum?
600
That schools should "meet the needs of the child"
What was a core belief of all progressives?
600
1941
What was the year the U.S. entered World War II?
700
John Dewey called this man the true father of progressive education.
Who was Francis Parker?
700
The Lab School at the University of Chicago
What was the school that John Dewey founded and where he worked out his ideas with Ella Flagg Young among others?
700
What was a belief held by anti-communists about progressive educators?
700
“It is hard to deny that America's schools, which were supposed to reflect one of history's noblest dreams and to cultivate the nation's youthful minds, have degenerated into a system for coddling and entertaining the rnediocre. It is one thing to establish courses of varying purpose and of varying degrees of difficulty to fit the talents of various individuals, but it is quite another to run schools in which most of the students avoid the tough courses—and get away with it.”
What was one of Sloan Wilson's criticisms of progressive education in Life magazine?
700
What was an example of "life adjustment" education that we watched in class?
800
Lewis Terman believed this practice would once and for all stop teachers from trying to assist and tutor students so they could return to their grade level.
What was the IQ test?
800
Crow Island School
What was one of the reforms in Winnetka?
800
Democracy and Education, published in 1916
What was John Dewey's major work on progressive education?
800
“It is the aim of progressive education to take part in correcting unfair privilege and unfair deprivation, not to perpetuate them.”
What was one of John Dewey's beliefs about progressive education?
800
Said many students made up a "great army of incapables"
Who was G. Stanley Hall?