Important People
Court Cases
Types of Schools
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100

Who created kindergarten?

Friedrich Froebel

100

What was the court case that decided that separate but equal was just?

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

100

What school is nowadays public school and was created by Horace Mann?

Common school

100
What was a Latin term that meant "in place of the parents"?

In Loco Parentis

100

What was a single sheet of parchment contained the Lord's Prayer and letters of the alphabet?

Hornbook

200

Who established free public schools (common schools) and expanded opportunities for the poor?

Horace Mann

200

What court case decided that separate but equal was unjust and against the law?

Brown v. Board of Education

200

What type of colonial school allowed untrained women to teach young boys?

Dame schools

200

What was the segregation of racial or other groups resulting from circumstances?

De Facto Segregation

200

What was a legal doctrine that holds the equality of treatment accorded when races are provided equal facilities, even though the facilities are separate?

Separate but equal

300

Who developed the idea that children learn best when the environment supports their natural desire to acquire skills and knowledge?

Maria Montessori

300

What was the US Supreme Court decision that upheld the rights of states to tax citizens to provide public secondary schools?

Kalamazoo Michigan Case

300

What type of school taught teachers the skill of pedagogy?

Normal Schools

300

What was the segregation that was enforced by law?

De jure segregation

300

What term is applied to gender stereotyping in a work field?

Gendered Career

400

Who was an educator and activist, who served as president of the National Association of Colored Women and founded the National Council of Negro Women?

Mary Bethune

400

What court case brought to light a San Francisco school that denied Chinese students the right to participate in certain activities in school, thus violating 601 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Lau v. Nicholas

400

What type of school was created by Benjamin Franklin and was private/semi public that stressed practical subjects?

Academies
400

What type of segregation was seen within schools?

Second-Generation Segregation

400

What act was a federally sponsored program to improve science, math, and foreign language instruction in schools?

National Defense Education Act (NDEA)

500

Who was an American schoolteacher and activist who pushed for women's suffrage and the rights of African Americans in the USA?

Prudence Crandall

500

What was the Supreme Court case that constructed clear walls limiting the use of public funds to support religious education?

 Lemon v. Kurtzman

500

What was the first public high school established in Boston called? (It initially only enrolled boys)

English Classical Schools

500
What was an education philosophy that emphasized democracy, student needs, practical activities, and school-community relationships?

Progressive Education

500

Who profiled for opening the door of higher education to women and promoted professional teacher preparation?

Emma Hart Willard

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