European Education Influence
A method of questioning designed to lead students to see errors and inconsistencies in their thinking, based on questioning strategies used by Socrates.
What is Socratic questioning?
Free state-supported schools that provide education for all students.
What are common schools?
A philosophical orientation based on the belief that life is evolving in a positive direction, that people may be trusted to act in their best interests, and that education should focus on students' needs and best interests.
What is progressivism?
The process of eliminating schooling practices based on the separation of racial groups.
What is desegregation?
Increased the authority of states and school districts for educational reform and improvement, while it reduced federal government authority in testing, teacher quality, and low-performing schools.
What is the Every Student Succeeds Act?
Schools founded on religious beliefs.
A school that focuses on the preparation of teachers.
What are normal schools?
A movement during the 1920s and 1930s to create schools that emphazied democracy, children's interests and needs, and closer connections between school and community.
The practice of holding teachers responsible for adhering to high professional and moral standards and creating effective learning environments for all students.
What is accountability
Colonial schools, usually held in the homes of widows or housewives, for teaching children basic reading, writing, and mathematical skills.
What are dame schools?
A school for children before they begin formal schooling at the elementary level.
What is kindergarten?
A method of teaching, based on a prescribed set of materials and physical exercises to develop children's independence, knowledge, and skills.
What is the Montessori method?
A 1958 federally sponsored program to promote research and innovation in science, mathematics, modern foreign languages, and guidance.
What is the National Defense Education Act?
A set of voluntary K-12 curriculum standards developed and endorsed by 48 of the 50 states.
What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative?
A copy of the alphabet covered by a thin transparent sheet made from a cow's horn.
A NEA committee recommended an academically rigorous curriculum for high school students (1893).
A U.S government program during World War II that provided funding for training workers in war plants, construction of schools, and child care for working parents.
Three trends during the 21st century: Equity for all students, excellence and high standards, and accountability for schools and teachers.
What are educational priorities?
A law requiring each town to determine whether its young people could read and write.
What is the Massachusetts Act of 1642?
An NEA committee recommended an academically rigorous curriculum for elementary students (1895).
Who is the committee of fifteen?
A 1944 federal law that provides veterans with payments for tuition and room and board at colleges and universities and special schools; formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act.
What is the G.I Bill of Rights?
A 1975 federal act that guarantees a free and appropriate education to all children with handicaps.
What is the Education for All Handicapped Children Act?
Schools approved by the State Board of Education would have greater control over curriculum, personnel, organization of the school day and year, technology use, and delivery of educational services to improve student learning.
What are innovation zones?