Colonial Period
A 1647 law intended to outwit Satan
What was the "Old Deluder Satan" Act?
Recognizing the importance of science, invention, and technology, this famous statesman founded an academy, a private secondary school.
Who is Ben Franklin?
In these typical public schools of early America, a single woman taught boys and girls, ranging in the age of 6/7 to 16/17.
What are one-room schools?
These schools were designed in the 1920s and 1930s as transitional institutions between elementary and high schools.
What are junior high schools?
These were approved in 2010 to ensure that American students were competent in skills and subjects related literacy and mathematics.
What are the Common Core State Standards?
A religious denomination that found refuge in Pennsylvania where they opened their schools to all children
Who were the Quakers?
This founding father was the first to express a philosophy that the state, not the churches, had the primary educational role and that state-sponsored schools would be funded by public taxes.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This leading teacher educator of the 1800s envisioned elementary-school teaching as a woman's profession.
Who is Catharine Beecher?
Chartered in 1636, this is considered to be the first college in America.
What is Harvard College?
This 1983 report stimulated a national movement to reform schools.
What is A Nation at Risk?
A locally controlled institution in the New England colonies that educated both boys and girls from ages 6 to 13/14
What was the Town School?
After years of intensive research, a prominent educator known as "the schoolmaster of the republic" published this 1828 famous book and the author is?
What is the American Dictionary and who is Noah Webster?
This prominent Whig of the 1800s developed the general public-school philosophy.
Who is Horace Mann?
These were passed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, establishing the age range that students had to attend school.
What are compulsory attendance laws?
What is No Child Left Behind?
The traditional European pattern of separate primary schools for the masses and prep and secondary schools for males in the upper socioeconomic classes
What was dual-track school system?
This important document of 1788 leaves responsibility for education with the individual states.
What is the Constitution?
These schools offered two-year programs for preparing elementary-school teachers from the 1860s to 1920.
What are normal schools?
This started in the late 1920s when radio and motion pictures were introduced in schools.
This movement of the President Obama Administration urged the adoption of standards to prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and compete in the global economy.
What is Race to the Top?
After learning to read and write English from private tutors, upper-class boys attended these schools, preparing them for college entry
What are Latin Grammar Schools?
What is the Bible and Christian principles?
These early textbooks emphasized literacy, hard work, diligence, punctuality, patriotism, and civility.
What are McGuffey readers?
This college, which served as the model for modern state universities, opened in 1825.
What is University of Virginia?
This noted historian of education opposed the Common Core Standards as serving the market interests of "testing corporations, charter chains, and technology companies."
Who is Diane Ravitch?