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A flat wooden board with a handle. A sheet of paper—usually containing the alphabet, a prayer or two, and Roman numerals— was pasted on the board. A thin, flat piece of clear animal horn was attached to cover and protect the paper. Used during the Colonial Period.
What is a horn book.
An American Founding Father of the United States. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.
Who is Benjamin Franklin
Courses of study that prepare students for careers related to a specific trade or occupation (jobs).
What is career and technical education.
Authorizes several federal education programs that are administered by the states. The law is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Under the 2002 law, states are required to test students in reading and math in grades 3–8 and once in high school.
What is No Child Left Behind Act
An electronic tool used in the classroom to display information
What is a projector
Public schools available to children from all levels of society.
What are common schools.
She opened the first Montessori school
Who is Maria Montessori
What is a four-year degree
What is a Bachelor's degree.
A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs Board of Education
What can students use in the classroom now to google information
What are cell phones
Someone who learns a skilled trade by watching and helping someone in that trade.
What is an apprentice.
American educator, the first great American advocate of public education, who believed that, in a democratic society, education should be free and universal, nonsectarian, democratic in method, and reliant on well-trained professional teachers.
Who is Horace Mann
What does the acronym HBCU mean?
What is Historically Black College/ University.
A four-part piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with Free Appropriate Public Education that is tailored to their individual needs
What is Children with Disabilities Act.
Based on research, children learn best through:
A. Hands-on
B. visually
C. literature (reading)
What is A., hands-on
The first widely used textbooks published during the American Common School Period. They included moral lessons along with science, grammar, and other subjects.
What are McGuffey readers.
American educator and participant in the Transcendentalist movement, who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States.
Who is Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
What movie did we watch that displayed "segregation"
What is Ruby Bridges
A Land-Grant Agricultural and Mechanical College Act of 1862. ; An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.
What is Morrill Act
A type of school funding (typically for college or business start-up) that you do not have to pay back
What is a grant
Schools that prepared men and women with the necessary skills to become teachers.
What are normal schools.
One of the foremost African-American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University
Who is Booker T. Washington
What First Lady was popular among education reform
Who is Michelle Obama.
Michelle Obama established this program in order to support healthy eating habits in the school system
What is Healthy School Lunch Program
K-12 Schools that receive government money but are freed from the usual demands of public schools in exchange for increased accountability for academic achievement, delineated in the school's charter.
What is Charter School