Milestones
In 2010, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers created these standards.
What are the Common Core State Standards?
He advocated vocational training for persons of color.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This legal case challenged the constitutionality of the Ohio school funding system.
What is DeRolph v. Ohio?
This city was the home of first American public school.
What is Boston?
This is the academic content we teach in school.
What is curriculum?
This influential 1966 report suggested that parents and the community had the greatest influence over student's educational outcomes.
What is the Coleman Report?
This education advocate proposed the "Talented Tenth" of education elite persons of color.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
This concept calls for spending what students need.
What is equity?
These schools follow the education philosophy of Rudolf Steiner and emphasize the art, nature and imagination.
What are Waldorf schools?
This assessment is often called "the nation's report card."
What is the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)?
This 1986 report called out deficiencies in the American education system, ushering in an era of greater accountability.
What is A Nation at Risk?
He was the father of the Common School movement.
Who is Horace Mann?
This is the primary local revenue source for public schools.
What are local property taxes?
These quasi-public modern-day schools are free from most government regulation and are governed by an appointed board.
What are charter schools?
This term describes looking at students weaknesses rather than their strengths.
What is deficit thinking?
This 1965 legislation brought the federal government into supporting education for under-resourced schools and students in poverty.
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965?
This educator advocated for progressive education that is centered on the child.
Who is John Dewey?
This is how much more on average a college grad makes compared to a high school grad
What is about 50% more?
These temporary, alternative schools established primarily in the South during the Civil Rights Movement aimed to provide education and social justice opportunities for African Americans.
What are Freedom Schools?
This referred to the idea that America was a nation of assimilated immigrants.
What is a melting pot?
He abolished the U.S. Department of Education in 2025.
Who is Donald Trump?
This Stanford University professor is sometimes called the "Michael Jordan of education policy."
Who is Linda Darling-Hammond?
This describes the amount owed for underfunding a student's education over the years.
What is education debt?
These Colonial institutions of learning provided "higher schooling" that primarily benefitted the "middling classes."
What are the Academies?
These are the unwritten, unofficial lessons students learn in school.
What is the hidden curricula?