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Elementary Education
Secondary Education
Private Education
Education for Minorities
100
The common school referred to schools that provided education for the average person. True or False?
True
100
What grades are homes to middle schools?
6, 7, and 8.
100
Private Schools came after Common Schools. True or False?
False
100
Who established the Tuskegee Normal School in 1881?
Booker T. Washington
200
Johann Pestalozzi had instructional techniques called object lessons. What did they focus on?
Actual objects and pictures.
200
Name two of the three early forms of secondary education.
Latin Grammar Schools, English Grammar Schools and Secondary Education for Females.
200
Private education has remained an important alternative for about what percentage of the population?
About 10%
200
Name all of the minorities that are in this chapter and whose education is talked about.
African Americans, American Indians, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans.
300
Who said this quote? "The Common School is the greatest discovery ever made by man."
Horace Mann
300
Why has secondary education today changed very little over the last 100 years?
The curriculum revolves around subjects that are taught by specialists and are not very different from the subjects offered in schools during WWI.
300
Since the middle of the 19th century, by far the largest private school enrollments have been in which schools ran by whom?
Parochial schools run by the Roman Catholic Church
300
What's the difference between de jure school segregation and de facto segregation?
De jur is segregation by law and de facto is segregation resulting primarily from residential patterns.
400
In 1919, the Progressive Education Association was established in a formalized attempt to reform education according to seven principles. Name 4 out of the 7.
1. The child should have freedom to develop naturally. 2. Natural interest is the best motive for work. 3. The teacher is a guide, not a taskmaster. 4. A students' general health and physical development require attention. 6. The school and the home must work together to meet children's needs. 7. The progressive school should be a leader in trying new educational ideas.
400
What was the final ruling of the 1874 Kalamazoo case?
The Michigan courts finally ruled that the school district could tax the public to support both high schools and elementary schools. This court case set the precedent for financing public high schools.
400
Historically, private schools have served three major purposes. Name on of the three.
Instruction for various religious denominations, an exclusive education for the wealthy and an alternative for any group that finds the available forms of education unsatisfactory.
400
What did the Supreme Court establish in Lau v. Nichols in 1974?
It established that schools must offer students sufficient special instruction to be afforded equal educational opportunity.