Prior to 20th Century
This university was the first in higher education.
What is Harvard University?
This war brought about tremendous growth in education, particularly for African-Americans.
What is the Civil War?
This law caused Texas caused students to change the use of their electronic devices while at school.
What is the cell phone ban?
This technology allows for students to see materials at the front of the room on a much larger screen.
What is a smart board?
These schools charge tuition money, usually require students to wear uniforms, and usually teach a particular religion or ideology.
What are private schools?
Prior to the 20th Century, rather than reading and writing and arithmetic, schools served this purpose.
What is religious training?
This war caused a "BOOM" that impacted schools with many more new students.
What is World War 2?
This law reduced the punishment for using a health hazardous product while at school.
What is the vaping ban?
This technology allows teachers to enter grades more quickly than what older method?
What is hand-written?
These two types of schools refer to where they are located--in a farming community or a major city.
What are rural and urban schools?
Who are the rich, white men?
This movement created a huge change in number of schools and students served.
What is the Progressive Education Movement?
This law required that schools could not be segregated based on race.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1954?
Students at VHS benefit from use of this portable technology device.
What is a Chromebook?
This state law in Texas states that these religious rules must be displayed if donated to a school.
What is the Ten Commandments Display law?
This man is known as the Father of Education.
Who is Horace Mann?
This man led the way for Progressive Education, teaching that schools should not be limited to teaching knowledge, but also teaching skills.
Who is John Dewey?
This law allowed schools to provide nutritious lunches to students each day, and allowed federal money for states to operate the program.
What is the National School Lunch Program?
This combination has been found to be most effective in delivering information.
What is media or digital learning combined with face-to-face learning?
The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 aimed for training people in career opportunities in specific trades.
What is Career & Technical Education?
This man was the third President of the United States, signed the Constitution, but also helped shape public education as we know it today.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Schools from the 20th Century forward turned the focus away from the church and directly towards this group of people.
Who are the children?
Child-Centered Approach
This law states that selection of college, job training, or programs after high school must be based on academic records NOT on physical abilities.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Services Act? (1973)
This worldwide crisis made digital learning the most accessible and practical way to have school.
What is the Covid-19 Pandemic?
This law provided that no state shall deny equal education opportunities to an individual based on: race, color, gender, or national origin.
What is the Equal Opportunities Act? (1973)