These were designed to measure mental aptitude rather than academic achievement and could be highly subjective.
What is IQ tests?
100
This proposal would divide the school day and work day into alternating periods of study and work.
What is Gary Plan/ Platoon System?
100
The _______ was the problem. It was said that too much attention was spent on the verbal and academics and not enough time spent preparing or jobs.
What is Curriculum?
100
The father of progressive education; also wrote The School and Society
Who is John Dewey?
200
This person wanted a restoration of all traditional methods of education for students...
Who is Arthur Bestor
200
Do you have your School textbook with you? Take it out and get 200 points!
Do you have your School textbook with you? Take it out and get 200 points!
200
This act sent over 100 million dollars annually to fund public education.
What is National Defense Education Act?
200
The process of guiding children into specialized curricular tasks.
What is Group Intelligence Testing?
200
Democratic opponent; he attacked the Gary Plan as a plot to turn out cheap labor for large corporations.
Who is John Hylan?
300
This gentleman was big on the idea of "Learning by doing".
Who is John Dewey?
300
Called for enforcing child labor laws and make school compulsory.
What is Progressives?
300
With the passing of ____________, all states required children to attend school until 16 years of age.
What is Child labor laws?
300
IQ test influences this standardized college entrance exam, created in 1941
What is SAT's?
300
This man trained a generation of administrators in what was called "Science of School Management".
Who is Ellwood P. Cubberley?
400
This man proposed the idea that the phonics of speaking and reading is more important than the whale word.
Who is Rudolph Flesch?
400
This was eventually declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1945
What is Dejure racial segregation?
400
This movement fought to improve living conditions- and working conditions in cities and ultimately led to a centralized and bureaucratic school administration- put paraprofessionals in charge of schools.
What is Progressive Social Reform Movement?
400
Reformers wanted to reduce schooling from 8 years old to 6 years old for this reason...
So younger children could begin to gain job training earlier.
400
This man led a successful fight to ban IQ testing in LA schools.
Who is Julian Nava?
500
This man called for a English-only curriculum.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
500
The press blamed public education for losing the space race to this soviet satellite in October 1957.
What is Sputnik?
500
This movement proposed that 20% of students move on to higher education, 20% to skilled work and 60% should take _________ classes.
What is Life Adjustment Movement?
500
*Daily Double: Between ____ and ____ over 22 million immigrants came to the US.
1890 and 1930
500
Graduated from high school in 1945 and went on to earn a doctorate in history from Harvard University; he was then elected to the Los Angles Board of Education and in 1979 was named U.S. ambassador to Mexico by President Jimmy Carter.