Vocabulary
What is public education?
School funded by the government and open to all children.
What is schools?
Education Reform helped more children attend this place where they learn subjects like math and reading.
Who is this man known as the "Father of the Common School?"
Horace Mann.
All children went to school in the early 1800s.
False.Many children did not attend school because public education was not widely available yet and went school in the late 1800s.
What is the Progressive Era?
The time period when many social reforms happened in the United States.
What is literacy?
The ability to read and write.
What are public schools?
Reformers wanted more of these schools available to all children.
What group worked to improve schools and expand education.
Education reformers.
Education reform helped increase literacy.
True
What is opportunity?
Reformers believed education could improve this for many Americans.
What is compulsory education?
Laws that require children to attend school.
What is citizenship?
Education reform helped prepare students for jobs and this responsibility in society.
What is society?
Reformers who believed education could improve this group of people.
Public education became more common during reform movements.
True.
What is read and write?
One result of education reform was that more people could do this.
What is education reform?
Changes made to improve the school system.
What are grade levels?
Education reform made schools more organized by creating these levels.
These professionals were trained better because of education reform.Who are they?
Teachers.
Compulsory education laws allowed children to skip school whenever they wanted.
False. It required children to attend school.
What are social classes?
Reformers wanted education to be available to people from all of these backgrounds.
What is higher education?
Schools that students attend after high school.
What are compulsory attendance laws?
These laws made it mandatory for children to attend school.
Reformers believed schools should prepare these young people for the future.Who are they?
Students.
Education reform helped expand higher education.
True?
What is society?
Education reform helped build a more educated version of this.