Connecticut native who created the standard for American English.
Who is (Noah) Webster?
100
State which 1st required any town of 50 households to hire a teacher to instruct their children to read in order to keep the Devil away.
What is Massachusetts?
100
1647 mandate intended to ensure children could read the Scriptures and abide by the law.
What is the Old Deluder Satan Act?
100
The method and practice of teaching.
What is pedagogy?
100
ensure that our children can read the Bible.
Who are the Puritans?
200
Massachusetts man who spearheaded the Common School Movement, ensuring that every child could receive a basic education funded by local taxes.
Who is (Horace) Mann?
200
Colonial region which had few schools because of the distances between plantations.
What are the Southern States?
200
1954 Supreme Court decision stating that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
What is Brown v Board of Education?
200
This word for "fairness" should not be confused with "equalness."
What is equity?
200
be free, universal, non-sectarian, public institutions with the purpose of being the best means of achieving the moral and socioeconomic uplift of all Americans.
Who are the Common School reformers?
300
This Founding Father tried and failed three times to pass legislation to select boys from poor families to be sent on to higher education at the public expense.
Who is (Thomas) Jefferson?
300
Gulf Coast city whose entire education system was reformed after a natural disaster devastated it.
What is New Orleans?
300
The common name for the 2001 law requiring all public schools receiving federal funding to administer an annual, statewide standardized test to all students.
What is NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND?
300
The study of knowledge.
What is epistemology?
300
protect our children from the Anglo-Protestant hegemony.
Who are the Catholics?
400
This British born educator pioneered a system of "peer tutoring" which he brought to America in the early 19th century.
Who is (Joseph) Lancaster?
400
Most ethnically and religiously diverse region of the Colonial era.
What were the Middle Colonies?
400
Law guaranteeing "free, appropriate public education" to children with disabilities.
What is Public Law 94-142?
400
This "newer" ideology favors Free Market Capitalism.
What is Neoliberal?
400
give adults an opportunity to hear debates and lectures on topics of current interest.
What is the Lyceum Movement?
500
This "Father of Progressive education" believed that the school is a "little democracy" which could create a "more lovely society."
Who is (John) Dewey?
500
Midwest capital city whose Board of Education lost a Supreme Court ruling stating, "separate but equal" was unconstitutional.
What is Topeka?
500
Under this law, federal funding can be withheld from an institution that discriminates on the basis of gender.
What is Title IX?
500
The science of interpretation, especially when using historical contexts.
What is hermeneutics?
500
give under-served (poor) communities Programs which promote Knowledge Is Power