The name of legislation that mandated that towns establish and support schools, and appoint teachers to educate children.
What is the Massachusetts Act of 1647?
100
The best known proponent of the common school movement.
Who is Horace Mann?
100
A garden where children grow.
What is kindergarten?
100
Created books that emphasized hard work, honesty, truth, charity and obedience which taught children important life lessons as they learned to read
Who is Rev McGuffey?
100
The preschool program developed with funding from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for underprivileged children.
What is Headstart?
200
a law designed to fight the war on poverty by increasing funding to schools serving high levels of low income children.
What is The Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
200
Created a private secondary school which had a broader and more practical curriculum and was a more democratically run institution.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
200
Schools held in homes that provided initial instruction for boys, and the only instruction for girls using a very essentialist curriculum.
What are dame schools?
200
Congressman who sponsored legislation to provide federal land to state to sell or rent in order to fund the establishment of agricultural colleges.
Who is Justin Morrill?
200
The decision which rejected the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Brown vs the Board of Education?
300
The first version of a compulsory attendance law which held parents accountable if their children could not read or write.
What is the Massachusetts Act of 1642?
300
Created the first American dictionary.
Who was Noah Webster?
300
Schools that offered boys an education that went beyond what could be taught at home.
What is a Reading and Writing School?
300
Viewed the education of the common people as the best way to preserve liberty and freedom.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
A theory which helped businesses and factories reform management principles and techniques.
What is scientific management?
400
Legislation which guaranteed that children with special needs would receive a free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment possible.
What is The Education for All Handicapped Children Act?
400
Created laboratory schools to test his progressive theories of education.
Who is John Dewey?
400
A secondary school which prepared boys to enter Harvard with a very perennialist curriculum.
What is a Latin Grammar School?
400
A founder of the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
400
A report that launched a great debate on the state of education in America.
What is A Nation at Risk?
500
Part of the Educational Amendments Act which stated that no person could be subjected to discrimination or denied participation in any education program or activity that receives federal funds.
What is Title IX?
500
Established the first college or "academy" for women in her dining room.
Who was Sarah Pierce?
500
A school created to educate teachers in areas of general knowledge and teaching practices.
What is a normal school?
500
Established a preschool for poor children where they were provided with developmentally appropriate educational activities designed to arouse their interest and motivate them to learn.
Who is Maria Montessori?
500
The result of "teacher bashing" and pushes for educational reforms.