A person who learns a skilled trade by watching & helping someone in that trade.
What is an apprentice?
100
The first state-supported schools were called ________.
What is Common Schools?
100
In spite of the Great Depression, this set of new textbooks began publication and taught basic reading skills with simple stories about family.
What is Dick & Jane Readers?
100
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 formally outlawed this in the US public schools and public places.
What is segregation?
100
Unable to read or write
What is illiterate?
200
A flat wooden board with a handle.
What is a hornbook?
200
He worked to establish free, public education for every boy and girl in Massachusetts.
Who is Horace Mann?
200
After the Supreme Court heard this case, the court ruled that racial segregation violated the constitution because segregated schools were, by nature, unequal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
This program, that still exists today, was designed to help preschool children from low-income families develop the skills they needed for success in kindergarten and beyond.
What is Project Head Start?
200
The movement that focused on schools again emphasizing reading, writing and math.
What is the Back-to-Basics Movement?
300
A type of school where students were taught by women in their own homes.
What is a Dame School?
300
He developed the idea for kindergarten and believed children learned best through play.
Who is Friedrich Froebel?
300
The surge in the birth rate causing a need for more schools and teachers is known as the _______ __________.
What is the baby boom?
300
The Equal Opportunity in Education Act prohibited discrimination based on ___________?
What is gender?
300
This act reaffirmed the six National Education Goals under the leadership of George Bush in 1990.
What is Goals 2000 Act of 1994?
400
An important leader in the colonies who signed the declaration of Independence and the constitution. Because of his influence, schools even today teach good citizenship.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
Books that taught moral lessons along with reading, spelling, and other subjects.
What is McGuffey Readers?
400
Money to spend on things people wanted, not needed is called _________ _____________.
What is disposable income?
400
The court ruled that students be granted _____ _____ for children who have limited English skills. This ruling was based on the dfficulty of Chinese students in San Francisco.
What is Bilingual Education?
400
The goal of this act was to improve the performance of schools in the US by increasing accountability, giving more choices for parents when choosing schools for their children and increasing the focus on reading.
What is No Child Left Behind Act?
500
The 3rd president of the United States who played a major role in establishing the current American Educational System.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
This method of learning is still used today, and was developed by Italy's first female doctor. She believed that children should direct their own learning with teachers as their partners.
What is the Montessori Method?
500
He developed a theory called Behaviorism which is the belief that how a person behaves is determined by that person's experiences.
Who is Skinner?
500
This guaranteed a free public education for children with disabilities.
What is Education for All Handicapped Children Act?
500
A public school that operates with freedom from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.