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These schools were considered the first secondary institutions, and eventually became known as "college preparatory school".
What are Latin grammar schools?
100
The book that Puritans believed was essential to be able to read, and therefore set the precedent that children were to be educated.
What is The Bible?
100
This act helped to enforce that "separate but equal" education continued through the college level by granting land for agricultural and mechanical arts colleges, and by denying funding to colleges with a discriminatory admissions policies.
What is the Morrill Act?
100
This six-volume series of books was extremely popular and trained American students grammar and the English language.
What are the McGuffey Readers?
200
This type of schooling is similar to current day technical school designed for students who do not plan to attend college, but need additional schooling to be successful. These schools focused on commercial rather than religious subjects.
What are English grammar schools?
200
This act required parents to educate their children due to the belief that Satan tried to keep people from understanding the scriptures.
What is the Old Deluder Satan Act?
200
This U.S. Supreme Court case was monumentally important because it showed American citizens that "separate but equal" would in fact be enforced and supported by the Supreme Court, and it set the precedent for all aspects of life including the school system integration.
What is the case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
This compensatory education program provides education and care for pre-school aged students that come from low-income families.
What are Head Start programs?
300
Some argue that this school is better than junior high school because it allows ten-to thirteen-year-olds to grow up at their own rates, rather than mimicking a high school atmosphere.
What is a middle school?
300
A book that was used to teach students their ABCs, numerals, and the Lord's Prayer while they attended town schools.
What is a hornbook?
300
These laws were enacted after the reconstruction period, and they enforced racial segregation in all aspects of life including schooling.
What are "Jim Crow" laws?
300
This form of education saw an increased emphasis after WWII, and the number of schools offering this kind of education increased by 83% between 1948 and 1953.
What is special education?
400
Citizens argued that this was the only schooling system that could maintain a democracy because it allowed all children to receive a free education beyond the elementary level.
What are public high schools?
400
Discontent with the so-called "moving schools" seen in New England as people spread out in search of better farm land, led to the development of this system in which a township was divided into sections, each having its own school.
What are school districts?
400
This Supreme Court case determined that "separate but equal" education was in fact not equal and led to the integration of White and non-White students in schools.
What is the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
400
This man is fondly refereed to as the "father of education" and was known for his belief in progressive education in which students learn by doing things to construct their own understanding with teachers as their coaches.
Who is John Dewey?
500
These schools were found in the Middle Colonies and were licensed by the government, but were financed by parents. Their primary goal was religious training, but practical subjects were taught along with the basics.
What are private venture schools?
500
This was the basic school text for at least 100 years and consisted of religious texts and other readings.
What is the New England Primer?
500
An admirable African American teacher that was called upon to start the Tuskegee Institute in 1881, and became a leader in the African American community as he helped to relieve tensions with the White community while building his students practical skills.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
This man educated his pupils through their attitudes of acceptance and love and emphasized learning through using things one knows to build on the things that they do not know yet.
Who is Johann Pestalozzi?