People
Theories
Events
Dates
Law and Policies
100

Jean Jacques Rousseau was known for his book ...

Emile

100

John Dewey’s philosophy is most closely associated with ...

Progressivism

100

The central purpose of Latin Grammar Schools was to

Prepare boys for college

100

The first public high school was organized in Boston in ...

1821

100

Public Law 94-142 for all handicapped children provides for ...

Mainstreaming

200

B.F. Skinner was instrumental in developing an educational process called ...

Behavior modification

200

The idea of the childhood education and the kindergarten originated in ...

Germany

200

The first public school system in the United States to add the kindergarten was ...

St. Louis

200

The organization that became the National Education Association was organized in ...

1857

200

The Kalamazoo Case 1874 set a legal precedent for ...

Public taxation for the support of high schools

300

Orbis Sensualism Pictus, one of the first popular illustrated textbooks for children, was written and published by ...

John Comenius

300

Five formal steps to learning and teaching (preparation, presentation, association, generalization and application) were part of _____________educational theory.

Johann Herbart’s

300

The U.S. Bureau of Education was initially established to ...

Collect and disseminate information about schools

300

Formal school surveys were started in ...

1910

300

President George Bush and Congress passed the _________ through a bipartisan effort to raise educational standards.

The No Child Left Behind Act

400

A leader in the development of kindergartens in the United States was 

William T. Harris

400

Educational researchers have found one of the most important factors in improving student achievement is ...

Highly qualified teachers

400

The first major research university in the United States that opened in 1876 was ...

Johns Hopkins

400

What year the IDEA was reauthorized?

2004

400

Separate but equal facilities were ruled legal by the Supreme Court in ...

Plessy v. Ferguson

500

An educator who believed in “stewardship theory of wealth” to help educate poor and disadvantaged children was ...

Horace Mann

500

A key figure in seeing language as a factor in American unity was ...

Noah Webster

500

Both the President George W. Bush and the Barack Obama administrations stressed having standards accompanied by ...

Accountability

500

What year Every Student Succeeds Act was passed?

2015

500

The Supreme Court ruled that schools should be integrated forthwith and with all deliberate speed in ...

Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka

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