People
Opened the first public library
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
A direct result of the Equal Opportunity in Education Act.
What is schools had to allow girls to play on traditional boys' sports teams?
Taught reading through stories based on moral lessons.
What is the McGuffey's Reader?
Time of a great increase in births after WWII.
What is the Baby Boom?
What is Human Resources?
Opened the first schools for teachers called normal schools.
Who is Horace Mann?
What is The National Defense Education Act?
Froebel based his idea for kindergarten on a child's need for this.
What is play?
Measurabe proof that schools and teachers are providing high quality education.
What is accountability?
Home schools must submit this to the Department of Education.
What is attendance or promotion?
Ended "No Child Left Behind".
Who is Barak Obama?
This act provided federal land to every state to establish colleges.
What is the Morrill Act?
Type of education that trains students for career opportunities in specific trades.
What is career and technical education?
Gives a measure of student performance against the performance of many other students.
What are standarized tests?
The average amount of money a school pays to educate a student for one year.
What is spending per pupil?
Felt students should learn through real-life activities.
Who is John Dewey?
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act.
What is guarantee a free public education for children with disabilities?
Schools during the American Colonial Period in which women taught children in their own homes.
What are Dame schools?
Education in two languages
What is bilingual education?
What is conflict resolution?
Students will respond to rewards and punishment as a way to mold behavior.
Who is Skinner?
Gave federal funds to districts based on the number of poor children enrolled.
What is The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965?
One room school houses became popular when this historic event occured.
What is the opening of the Oregon Trail?
Supreme Court decision that called for an end to segregation in public schools.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas?
Students or groups with characteristics that make them more likely to fail academically.
What is at-risk?