This type of school was led by respected women who had no formal schooling but had learned to read & write and chose to turn their homes into schools.
What were Dame Schools?
100
This ordinance divided federally owned wilderness land into townships and required for the building of schools.
What is the Northwest Land Ordinance of 1787?
100
These schools were community supported elementary schools for all children established in response to a variety of economic, social, and political factors.
What are Common Schools?
100
This act called for the strengthening of science, math, and foreign language programs.
What is the National Defense Education Act of 1958?
100
A legally enforceable law without monetary support provided.
What is an unfunded mandate?
200
Men who taught in the first elementary schools did so temporarily before going into one of these two areas.
What are Ministry and Law?
200
These schools were designed to teach content intended to prepare students to participate in business and trade.
What are private academies?
200
These were established by reformers to address the problems of urban poverty.
What are settlement houses?
200
This act stipulated that if schools discriminated based on race, color, or national origin, they would not be eligible for federal funding.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
First compulsory education law in the New World; required all white children to attend school.
What is the Massachusetts Act of 1642?
300
For this reason, teachers lived with student’s families for a week at a time to save on lodging money.
What is low income?
300
In addition to private academies, these schools were established for the whole community.
What are town schools?
300
Prior to the Civil War, these were enacted, predominantly in the South, prohibiting the education of slaves.
What are Black Codes?
300
This report, written by President Reagan, had strong language and referred to public education in the United States as a “rising tide of mediocrity.”
What is A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform?
300
Process of bringing persons of all races and ethnicities into the mainstream by having them behave in ways that align with the dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
400
These people taught in exchange for passage to the New World.
What were indentured servants?
400
At first, this was the popular degree; later, other majors like law, medicine, and commerce increased in popularity.
What is theology?
400
This Michigan Supreme Court case established that the legislature could tax for support of both common and secondary schools, propelling public high schools into school systems in every state.
What is the Kalamazoo case?
400
This person established the first laboratory school at the University of Chicago to test the principles of progressive education.
Who was John Dewey?
400
First established in 1635 in Boston for boys whose families could afford to send them on for more education beyond the dame school; considered the forerunner of modern high schools and specifically prepared boys to attend Harvard University, established in 1636.
What were Latin Grammar Schools?
500
Schools were originally established mainly for this reason.
What is Religous purpose?
500
This school was oriented toward “real-world, useful learning” and offered mathematics, astronomy, navigation, accounting, book keeping, French, and Spanish.
What is the Franklin Academy?
500
President Lincoln signed this congressional bill that granted states 30,000 acres of land for every senator and representative it had in Congress in 1860. The income the states could generate from this land was used to be used to support at least one college.
What is the Morrill Act?
500
This was the defining legislation of the 21st century and called for accountability of schools and school districts to states, and of states to the federal government.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
500
Because education was considered the best way to fight the devil, the act (also known as the Massachusetts Act of 1647) established that every town of 50 or more households must provide a school.