Colonial NE Education
Schools
Cultures
Women
People
100

How long did girls attend school for and why?

What is 1-2 years to learn to read the bible and be a good wife

100

What Was the first free secondary school established in 1821 in Boston?

What is English Classical School?

100

At 16% of the population, what is the largest minority group?

What is Hispanics?

100

What school was opened to educate women as teachers? 

What is the Troy Female Seminary?

100

Who is known for For her work in identifying the educational potential of young children and crafting and environment which young children could learn?

Who is Maria Montessori?

200

What did the 17th Century society demand of their educators? 

What is forward thinking educators?

200

What Ruled in 1874 that taxes could be used to fund secondary schools.?

What is the Kalamazoo Michigan Case?

200

What was Established by the federal government in 1824. Began placing tribes on reservations. There Indian boarding schools were established, but the Native Americans refused to send their children?

What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

200

Why was it popular to hire females as teachers?

What is pay difference? Women were paid 1/3 to 1/2 of what males were.

200

Who is known For his work in developing progressive education, for incorporating democratic practices for the educational process?

Who is John Dewey?

300

What was the provided path to Heaven? 

What is education?

300

What Put school reform in the national spotlight?

What is a Nation at risk? 

300

Which group of Americans have attained a high degree of educational and economic success?

Who are Asian Americans?

300

After WWII, married women needed to submit what to attend a university?

What is a letter of permission from her husband?

300

Who is known For establishing free public schools and expanding the opportunities of poor as well as wealthy Americans, and for his vision of the central role of education in improving the quality of American life?

Who is Horace Mann?

400

Dames taught reading, writing, and computations in their home called?

What are Dame Schools?

400

What was the National Education Society to develop a national policy for high schools?

What is Committee of ten? 

400

Do a high percentage of Arab Americans attend college and post-graduate college?

What is yes, higher than the national average?

400

Was Title IX written only for women?

What is no, it also protected males from gender discrimination?

400

Who is known For his recognition of the special needs of the disadvantaged and his work in curricular development?

Who is Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi?

500

Which law required: 

Every town of 50 households must appoint and pay a teacher of reading and writing

Every town of 100 households must provide a (Latin) grammar school to prepare youth for the university, under a penalty of 5 for failure to do so.

What is Old Deluder Satan Law: Massachusetts Law of 1647?

500

What were founded in Massachusetts, schools devoted to preparing teachers in pedagogy?

What is normal schools?

500

What is the percentage of Hispanics that drop out of school?

What is more than 50%?

500

Women were given no education, then they were able to go to what?

What are seminaries? 

500

Who is known for his cofounding the National Association of for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and for his efforts to encourage black Americans to pursue higher education?

Who is W.E.B. DuBois?