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This group of early Colonial New England settlers sought to formalize instruction in education to fit their religious beliefs.
Who are the Puritans.
100
This first law chastised parents for not attending to their children's "ability to red and understand the principles of religion and capital laws of the country"
What is the Old Deluder Laws
100
He was famous for the theme of utilitarianism which promoted secular and practical courses of study rather than the traditional studies of religion and classics.
Who was Benjamin Franklin
100
These New Englad Schools usually were managed by elderly women, often widows, who required children to recite their lessons.
What are Dame Schools
100
Europeans came to America to find political asylum and religious refuge as well as relief from poverty stricken conditions in their own countries.
What was the colonial era?
200
The middle colonies served a more diverse population than found in New England. Pennsylvania was dominated by this group of people who was opposed to harsh treatment of their children.
Who were the Quakers?
200
This 1846 court case was the first step toward equal education, however ironic, that the ruling was in favor of the right to establish segregated schools for whites and blacks.
What is Roberts v. City of Boston
200
In 1779, he proposed the "Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge" which would provide free education to all children for the first 3 years of elementary school.
Who was Thomas Jefferson
200
These schools, what we would consider elementary schools today where children learned their 3 Rs were established by the Old Deluder Law in towns of 50 families or more.
What were town schools?
200
Between 1820 -1850 enormous changes in the economy brought with it increased number of immigrants from all parts of Europe and Asia.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
300
In 1865 months following the end of the Civil War, congress passed this Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in America.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
Seen as equivalent to our secondary level schools, these New England schools primarily served boys of wealthy families.
What was the grammar school?
300
At the close of the 19th century a revolution driven by the steam-driven engine and electric powered machinery made way large corporations and monopoly capitalism.
What is the second Industrial Revolution?
400
Schools for Native Americans were initially run by this religious group.
Who were the missionaries?
400
From the 1880s into the 1960s, from Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) imposed legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated. An example:The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a Negro, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu shall be null and void.
What were the Jim Crow laws?
400
He was the most popular reformer in support of free public education, not because of his career as a statesman or the first Secretary of Education, but because he road horseback visiting most every school district in the state of Massachusetts.
What was Horace Mann?
400
With the massive increase in immigration in the early-mid 1800's the promotion of this school was out of concern for stability, order, and social mobility.
What is the common school?
400
Educational reformers fearful that the educational system only served to increase the gap between the extremely wealth and poor, insisted on government regulation of industry, conservation of the nation's national resources, and schools as the stronghold of democracy in building a new social order.
What is the progressive movement?
500
Despite the fact that most schooling beyond elementary schools were primarily done by private academies, Congress passed this act in 1862 which authorized the use of public tax money to establish public land grant universities, resulting in the establishment of state universities, a century later would enable creation of the University of Hawaii.
What is the Morrill Act?
500
Famous for his book, "Emile", and the educational pedagogy of nature over nurture, this French author was a romantic who also created Emile's ideal female companion, "Sophie". Women's education required learning the feminine arts for entertaining men, eating sweets, and not engaging in intellectual matters which might cause them biological harm.
Who is Jean-Jacque Rousseau?
500
In search of an identity for the multitude of new settlers to America and wanting to distinquish what it meant to be an "American" from English culture and customs, this movement sought to unify education under a single ideal.
What is the common school movement?
500
Educational reformers fearful that the educational system only served to increase the gap between the extremely wealth and poor, insisted on government regulation of industry, conservation of the nation's national resources, and schools as the stronghold of democracy in building a new social order.
What is the progressive movement?