Colonial Period
American education is said to have roots in this colony.
What is Jamestown?
This document shaped the educational system after 1789.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Between 1830 and 1865, the land area of the U.S. doubled and then the population tripled, mostly due to the arrival of these new people.
Who are immigrants?
What are middle schools?
This is the name of the Morningside Mustang mascot.
What is Monte?
King James of England wanted to convert Native Americans to Protestant Christianity so this was an integral part of early schools.
What is religion?
During the Early National Period, the teaching of this was removed from schools.
What is religion?
During the common school movement, these were collected to provide funding for public schools.
What are taxes?
This group of people is the largest minority group represented in American schools and in the U.S. population.
Who are Hispanic Americans?
These are the three primary colors.
In 1751, this American established an academy in Philadelphia that served as a secondary school for boys and girls, which set a precedent for secondary schools today.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
During the Early National Period, legislators took control of education from the federal government and gave it to these.
What are the states?
Organizing elementary schools into these made instruction easier for teachers.
What are grade levels?
This enactment by the federal government was initially designed to eliminate gender-bias in education, specifically for girls and women.
What is Title IX?
Besides the Morningside Mustangs, this is Diane's favorite college team.
What is the Iowa Hawkeyes?
Colonial schools focused on these "4 Rs."
What are reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion?
The First Amendment established the principle known as the the separation of these.
What are church and state?
This person is credited with advocating for public education for all citizens and helping to make it available to all children.
Who is Horace Mann?
In this 1954 case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separate educational facilities were unequal and that "racially segregated schools generated a feeling of inferiority."
What is Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka?
Tagliatelle, vermicelli, farfalle are all types of this.
What is pasta?
Who were the Puritans?
Because of the Land Ordinance of 1785, public schools today still receive this 2-word alliterative term that means money from the government.
What is federal funding?
During the common school movement, these two-year institutions were created to prepare teachers.
What are normal schools?
Historically, the education of Native Americans has largely been an attempt to do this process of socializing them into White society.
What is assimilation?
Pouched animals like kangaroos and wombats are mammals classified in this order.
What are marsupials?