Milestones
This landmark Supreme Court case in 1954 ended segregation in American schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
He advocated vocational training for persons of color.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Educators in this philosophy believe that schooling is life and education should be child-centered, preparing students to participate in a democratic society.
What is Progressive?
These Colonial schools were often taught by women.
What are Dame Schools?
This was the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1896 that ruled "separate but equal" is constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
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?
Teaches in this philosophy should act as public intellectuals and challenge the present power structurre and create a more democratic society.
What is Critical Theory?
Providing education for this group of persons was illegal in the South.
Who are persons of color?
American public high schools originated in this city in 1821 as an alternative to the Latin Grammar Schools.
What is Boston?
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?
Educators in this philosophy believe that the purpose of school is to foster students intellectual development by teachiig Western European classics and thought to prepare students for further education and work.
What is Traditional?
This group of Colonial residents were most likely to attend college.
Who are wealthy white males?
In 1834, the New York State Legislature created the first of these institutions to train teachers to meet a growing need.
What are Normal schools.
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?
These benchmark national education goals were originally developed in 1990.
What is America 2000?
These schools were considered the elite institutions to prepare students for Harvard or Yale.
What are Latin Grammar Schools?
In which state did the national government first grant land to start land-grant state universities in 1802?
What is Ohio?
This organization created the Committee of Ten and the Committee of 15 to advocate for high school reforms.
What is the National Education Association?
His scientific management approach brought greater efficiencies to the education system.
Who is Frederick Taylor?
Educators in this philosophy believe that education's most important goals are to awaken the human consciousness to the human condition and to the freedom to choose and to create the personal self-awareness that makes each individual unique.
What is Existential?
These institutions of learning provided "higher schooling" that primarily benefitted the "middling classes."
In 1839, this Yale-educated lawyer initiated reforms in education in Connecticut, which was lagging in primary and secondary education.
Who was Henry Barnard?