Historical Figures
This future president believed that everyone should be educated and geniuses should be picked out of the rubble to serve in government.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
In this aptly named era, slaves were not allowed to be educated because white people were afraid they would claim their freedom so there had to be legislature against this; literacy was a symbol of resistance.
What is the Antebellum Period?
This theory of education holds that it is a public good in service of the private sector, preparing workers to sustain the economic labor force of the future.
What is Social Efficiency?
Beginning in the 1670s, Indigenous children were taken from their homes and placed here to be socialized.
What are Residential Schools?
This state was the first to pass education-related legislation in 1642
What is Massachusetts?
A teacher herself, she argued women are the ideal teachers because they can be paid less, and they are genetically disposed to educate the children to be good citizens...
Who is Catherine Beecher?
In this era, Horace Mann established schools meant to be the great equalizer of man, enforcing standardization in schools for white students.
What is the Common School Movement?
The disparity in standardized test scores between children of historically oppressed ethnic and racial identities and white children reveals this “space” in education.
What is the Achievement Gap?
Children are removed from their homes, school leaders manipulate parents and forbid them from seeing their children, students’ hair is cut and clothes are changed, their languages banned, forced to study Christianity and do manual labor
What is the “erasure process” practiced in residential schools?
President Lyndon B Johnson signed this bill into law stemming from the War on Poverty.
What is the Elementary & Secondary Education Act of 1965?
The namesake of one of the top schools in the country, this Massachusetts Board of Education founder believed that schools should be publicly funded and centrally controlled.
Who is Horace Mann?
This era reflected a national movement, a time when many conflicting groups emerged with differing perspectives on the future of schooling.
What is the Progressive Era?
This concept is accumulated over time, comprised of historical, economic, sociopolitical, and moral components
What is the education debt?
The first successful federal school desegregation decision in the nation, this Supreme Court case was filed by Mexican-American parents against California school districts.
What is Mendez v. Westminster?
This military-named act signed during the Space Race with the Soviet Union put money into STEM education, marking a shift back to traditional pedagogies.
What is the National Defense Education Act?
This psychologist advocated for IQ testing to sort students by ability.
Who is Lewis Terman?
The rapid decline of the progressive movement and increase in patriotism in the face of “global socialism” marked a shift to traditionalism in this era.
What is the Cold War Era?
This theory of the goal of education holds that it is a public good necessary for preparing informed citizens
What is Democratic Equality?
A practice mandated by some courts in the 1970s to effectively desegregate schools, placing Black students in schools far from where they lived
What is busing?
George W. Bush called this act the “cornerstone of his administration”, mandating standardized testing, granting rewards for schools showing yearly progress, and even closing some “underperforming” schools.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
This bishop believed that non-Protestant Americans should not be forced to pay taxes which would indoctrinate children against their belief systems. He founded the first Catholic schools
Who is John Hughes?
Sweeping legislation in the turn of the century created common standards for schools.
What is the Era of Accountability?
This idea is that education is a private good which prepares students to compete for positions of power in society.
What is Social Mobility?
This practice is still permitted in 19 states, harming thousands of students in the name of discipline yearly
What is corporal punishment?
Commissioned by the Reagan administration, this report started a focus on critical thinking and school reform to combat “a rising tide of mediocrity”
What is A Nation at Risk?