An early reading primer consisting of a single page protected by a transparent sheet
What is a hornbook?
100
When Massachusetts passed laws that allowed selected men to travel and require parents or masters to explain how they were providing for their child's education
What is 1642?
100
Families with means to educate their daughters would send them to
What is Entrepreneurial School?
100
The initial gender of all school teachers in New England town schools
What is Male?
100
Whippings, standing in corner, wearing a dunce cap
What is class discipline?
200
An elementary book of religious material
What is a primer?
200
The general court realized that the school law was not working as intended after _ years.
What is 5?
200
They received no formal instruction and were sometimes not educated at all
What is poor children?
200
Men taught mostly in the winter and Women taught in the summer, so girls were enrolled in school during the ____.
What is Summer?
200
Students were supposed to learn how to read at home before they entered the town school at age __.
What is 8?
300
When the school masters stood in place of the parents
What is loco parentis?
300
The law that assumed those who could read and understand the Bible could not be lured to follow Satan's temptations and offend God
What is the famous "Ye Olde Deluder Satan"?
300
Included a minimum education for most children at English town, common, or elementary schools and preparation for college at the Latin grammar schools
What is Dual-Track System?
300
Reading and Writing master's salary in small colonies
What is 10 pounds?
300
Listening to recitations by students, assigning tasks, making quill pens, dictating math problems, and keeping order
What is the teacher life?
400
what a child became if they wished to follow a vocation or different career path that was not pursued in their own home
What is an apprentice?
400
The law that required towns that had at least ___ households to appoint and pay for a teacher to instruct all children to read and write
What is 50?
400
A type of school that became available to prepare young children with the skills to enter elementary school.
What is Dame School?
400
Many teachers "doubled up" careers, including ________.
What is Law, Medicine, Ministerial assisting, tailoring , inn keeping, grave digging?
400
Very expensive and of poor quality at that time, which resulted in it being used rarely.
What is paper?
500
Reading, Writing, and principles of religion
What is the curriculum?
500
To the Puritans, educations primary goal was not to advance a child's personal interests, but to _______
What is to protect and enhance the community and the state?
500
A type of school that was a newer and less well-defined institution for older students not attending college
What is The Academy?
500
Appeared in 1820's, still used today as well as dry erase boards
What is a blackboard?
500
A meeting room, a barn, spare room in someone's house, or shelters.