Vocab
A public, tax-supported school.
Common School
Known as the "Father of Education" for implementing tax supported "Common Schools"
Horace Mann
Believed sensory experiences help young children learn and developed the “Montessori Method”.
Maria Montessori
Required every town of fifty households to appoint and pay for a teacher of reading and writing.
Old Deluder Satan Law
Established the “separate but equal” doctrine.
Plessy v. Ferguson
A two-year teacher education institution popular in the 19th century.
Normal School
“Father of Progressive/Vocational Education”
John Dewey
Co founded the NAACP
W.E.B Dubois
Law that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin.
Title VI (6)
Ended segregation in public schools & Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown vs. Board of Education
Primary schools in which students were taught by untrained women in the women's own homes.
Dame Schools
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute.
Booker T. Washington
“Father of behaviorism” & Operant Conditioning Theory
B.F. Skinner
Law that prohibits discrimination based on gender.
Title IX (9)
Provided education funding for English language learners.
Bilingual Education Act
A piece of wood with a sheet of paper containing the alphabet and the Lord's Prayer.
Hornbook
Established the first Kindergarten.
Friedrich Froebel
The first African American student to integrate an all white elementary school in the south.
Ruby Bridges
Law ensuring students with disabilities receive a free and appropriate public education.
IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
Educational initiative that established consistent, nationwide learning goals for K–12 students in ELA & Math.
Common Core
The science of teaching.
Pedagogy
Began the first public library, started a secondary school & developed the Franklin Academy.
Benjamin Franklin
Developed theory of cognitive development
Jean Piaget
Replaced No Child Left Behind & Reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act)
Gave federal grants to help provide education to low-income families.
ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act)