This person came up with a method of thinking that is named after him. It consists of carefully questioning one's thinking to bring out the knowledge within.
Who is Socrates?
100
Education provided to children with limited English-speaking ability.
What is bilingual education?
100
Free Schools for working class students of both genders
What are common schools?
100
This Supreme Court decision in 1954 commanded schools to desegregate with "all deliberate speed."
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
This "war" after the World War eras caused a renewed focus on STEM.
What is the Cold War?
200
He believed that a common American language was necessary to bind people together and created the most successful school book ever written, which bears his name.
Who is Noah Webster?
200
A requirement that parents enroll and send their children to school, which dates to the Massachusetts Act of 1642.
What is compulsory education?
200
Schools that follow a policy of child-centered development.
What are Montessori schools?
200
In 1857, the NEA, which stands for this, was formed to advocate for education.
What is National Education Association?
200
World War II's focus on efficiency brought questions about the dangers of this type of curriculum.
What is child-centered or Montessori?
300
This future president proposed the Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge, which outlined a wider education plan for all children in Virginia.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
A philosophy that emerged in the Renaissance which emphasizes the value and meaning of education rather than acquisition of facts.
What is humanism?
300
These schools were forerunners of teacher-prep colleges.
What are normal schools?
300
Justin Morrill sponsored a bill that got passed in 1862, which led to the creation of agricultural and mechanical schools, which are also called this.
What are land-grant schools?
300
This issue of ethnicity in education lent itself to the creation of a second Morrill Act which gave money to colleges that did not discriminate unless this caveat was made.
What is that there was a separate- and presumably equal- facility nearby.
400
In 1837, he helped form the first board of education and became its secretary. He worked very hard to advocate for common schools.
Who is Horace Mann?
400
These individuals of ancient Greece wandered around teaching general education to anyone who could pay.
Who are Sophists?
400
Schools that train students to enter a particular field.
What is vocational training?
400
The Massachusetts Supreme court ruled that Sarah Roberts would not be allowed to attend a white school in this ruling.
What is Roberts v. City of Boston?
400
Because of larger populations in cities, monitorial schools began to pop up, which these non-teachers taught specific skills to pupils.
What are advanced students?
500
She championed the notion that play of young children is a learning experience.
Who is Maria Montessori?
500
The government chooses specific programs and gives them money in this practice to continue its involvement in education.
What is categorical funding?
500
These schools are affiliated with some kind of religious group.
What are parochial schools?
500
These new measures for education are a sign of new involvement of the federal government.
What is No Child Left Behind and/or Common Core Standards?
500
In Canterbury Connecticut, Prudence Crandall began providing schooling to this ethnic group, causing irate villagers to poison her well, try to burn down her house, and forced her school to shut down.