How many years of schooling were needed to graduate to move onto the university level?
What is 12 years.
100
What was the title of his book?
What is Adolescence.
100
What year was the Chinese exclusion act passed?
What is 1882.
100
Who's ideas did David Sneddon admire in regards to education policy?
What is John Dewey.
100
What was the name of the first high school?
What is the Boston Latin School.
200
Who chaired the NEA committee of ten?
What is Charles W. Eliot.
200
What is he often referred to as?
What is the father of American Psychology.
200
Where did national leaders turn to to help resolve new immigration problems?
What is schools.
200
Who believed that there was no harm in a program of vocational education that was designed specifically to prepare a young person for a specific job.
What is David Sneddon.
200
True or false: boys and girls went to the same high school.
False: there were separate highs schools for boys and girls.
300
What did the NEA question? (possibility to get double points if you list both answers!)
What is whether there should be a universal or differential curriculum for youth in secondary schools
AND
whether schools should offer a uniformed curriculum across the nation
300
What did he feel the Committee of Ten did?
What is they minimized the diversity of thought, persona, and action of the youth attending school.
300
When did immigration start to become rapidly eroding?
What is toward the end of the nineteenth century.
300
How many recommendations did Conant propose on how comprehensive schools should be improved?
What is 21.
300
What was so special about schools in Chicago, IL.
What is they developed schools that were co-educational & open to all regardless of their ethnicity or race.
400
What is a comprehensive high school?
What is students gathered in the same place but for very different programs.
400
What was the main point of his book?
What is not everyone who attended college would attend it in the same way because of the way adults matured.
400
Did the U.S. have an opening or closed way for immigrants?
What is an "open commitment".
400
What was Dewey's concern about the way education policy was developing in the U.S.
The separation between the ones that make education policy and the ones that actually lead and teach schools.
400
What were Charles W. Eliot's views on social efficiency?
What is he thought that African Americans, Native Americans, and foreign-born immigrants who were not part of the "old stock" should be taught a vocational rather than liberal education.
500
What year was the Report of the Committee on Secondary School Studies?
What is 1893.
500
What year was his book published?
What is 1904.
500
What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion act?
What is it allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration.
500
Why did Conant feel that schools were failing to meet the challenges of tomorrow?
What is because they were under-preparing youth for adult life, work, and civil agreement.
500
By 1970 what was the percentage of 17 year olds with a high school diploma?