Colonial & Early Education
These primary American colonial schools mostly served pre-school age students.
What are dame schools?
Dewey's approach emphasized learning through doing and connecting curriculum to democratic life.
What is progressivism?
Public schools in the U.S. are largely funded by this source of revenue.
What are local property taxes?
Education in the United State is primarily governed by this level of government.
What are state governments?
This Black American educator advocated for the Talented Tenth to be educated into college.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
These schools served wealthy white males who planned to attend college.
What are Latin grammar schools?
Most students today were educated in a system that used this philosophical foundation.
What is traditionalism?
This approach to funding tries to ensure that all students get the resources they need to be successful.
What is equity?
This U.S. Supreme Court case struck down as unconstitutional the doctrine that said schools can be separate by race but still be equal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This federal law guarantees equal access to educational resources for women and girls.
What is Title IX?
Thomas Jefferson proposed this publicly funded system to cultivate informed citizens for democracy.
What is a system of common schools supported by taxes?
You might say this philosophical foundation advocates for burning the system down and starting over -- but only figuratively of course.
What is critical theory?
This concept in school funding ensures a funding base that provides an amount of resources that is considered acceptable to achieve success.
What is adequacy?
This 1975 federal law guaranteed free appropriate public education for children with disabilities.
What is Education for All Handicapped Children Act (now known as IDEA)?
When a person says, "I treat everyone the same no matter their race," they are espousing what theory?
What is colorblindness?
In the 19th century, this reformer led the common-school movement advocating for free, non-sectarian, universal public education.
Who is Horace Mann?
This conceptual feature of the traditional philosophy calls the ideal of school is that it is a rational, organized place that transmits important cultural knowledge and skills to students.
What is essentialism?
This level of government provides the smallest amount of funding for local schools.
What is the federal government?
This legendary lawyer and jurist led the NAACP legal challenges to school segregation and later became a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
One is what we want students to learn, and the other is how teachers deliver that to students.
What are curriculum and instruction?
This colony developed the most extensive education system and remains today as a state with one of the highest academic achievement rates.
What is Massachusetts?
One educational philosophy espouses that individuals must create themselves by shaping their own meaning and choices.
What is existentialism?
School districts in Ohio sued the state iin this lawsuit for not providing a funding system that met the requirements of the Ohio Constitution.
What is DeRolph v. Ohio?
This 1983 report warned of a "rising tide of mediocrity" and spurred education reform movements.
What is A Nation at Risk?
He is considered by many to be the father of Critical Race Theory.
Who is Derrick Bell?