Spinsters, Bachelors, and Gender Barriers in Teaching
Black Americans
Hispanics
Women and Education: A History of Sexism
100
Who was referred to as the father of public schooling?
Horace Mann
100
What gender took over the education career in the mid nineteenth century?
Men
100
What was the Supreme Court decision that developed a doctrine of separate but equal?
Plessy v. Ferguson
100
Why do Latinos immigrate to the US?
To escape economic and political repression
100
Who wrote and disseminated her views on opening higher education to women and won favorable responses from Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe?
Emma Hart Willard
200
What was found in Massachusetts and was devoted to preparing teachers in pedagogy?
Normal schools
200
Who implored female teachers to accentuate their feminine traits, highlight their domestic skills, and continue their preparation for marriage?
Catherine Beecher
200
What was segregation by law or by official action?
De jure segregation
200
What are the three largest Hispanic subgroups?
Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans
200
Who said that women attending high school and college were at risk because the blood destined for the development and health of their ovaries would be redirected to their brains?
Dr. Edward Clarke
300
What big war was going on when the public elementary schools were accepted?
Civil War
300
Why did schools want to hire unmarried and unlikely to marry women in early part of the twentieth century?
So women wouldn't suffer the dual loyalties inherent in "serving" both husband and employer
300
Why did De facto (unofficial) segregation occur?
It occurred as the result of segregated residential patterns, patterns that were ofter prompted by discriminatory real estate practices.
300
Who in the nineteenth century was highly respected political exiles striving for independence of their homeland?
Puerto Ricans
300
What is Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972?
Females saw significant progress towards gaining access to educational programs, but not equality.
400
Who did Mann offend religiously during the common schooling?
Calvinists, atheists, Jews, Catholics, and others
400
What association reacted by campaigning for school districts to drop their ban against hiring married women?
The National Education Association
400
What is Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka?
A court that's ruled unanimously that "in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Seperate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
400
What percentage does the Mexican American US Hispanic subgroup have?
66%
400
What century had informal family education, apprenticeships, dame schools, and tutors?
Seventeenth Century
500
Who protested the additional tax monies needed to support public education?
Concerned taxpayers
500
Why did male teachers become suspected in the early twentieth century?
They thought they were gay and if they were gay they were thought to be poor role models for children
500
What is within-school segregation?
Second-generation segregation
500
Who were the followers of the Castro-led revolution in the 1950s?
Cuban Americans
500
Who was in the hall of fame for her integrity and bravery in bringing education to African American girls in 1803-1889?