Progressive Frame of Reference
Expanding Curriculum
Universities
Educational Diversity
American Educators
100
a type of person that progressive reformers wanted to give more opportunities of knowledge and power to through education
What is the common man?
100
The driving principle behind reform in higher education to broaden the training of different careers.
What is a more practical curriculum?
100
Institutions of higher learning multiplied in the late 1800s because they were aided by __________ and by an increase in ___________.
What is aided by land grants and by an increase in people who could afford tuition?
100
Southern states used this type of policy to keep African Americans segregated from Whites. This policy applied to how universities and colleges were set up.
What are seperate-but-equal policies?
100
The attitude of business that American educators adopted.
What is "more is better?"
200
The view of education that stressed personal development, not subject matter, should be the focus of the curriculum.
What is the Progressive's view of education?
200
These two types of changes influenced educators to make learning more appealing to students and caused curricula to expand.
What is technological and social changes?
200
Some examples are Medical College of Philadelphia, Smith, Mount, Holyvoke, an Wellesley.
What are women's colleges?
200
The result of higher education expanding caused them to enroll in college especially between 1890-1910.
What is females?
200
Two reasons American educators congratulated themselves.
What is increasing enrollments and making instruction more meaningful?
300
These two men asserted that modern education should prepare children differently. Believed that learning should involve real-life problems.
Who is John Dewey and G. Stanley Hall?
300
These three new areas of study allowed state universities to achieve distinction.
What is political science, economics, and sociology?
300
The college that pioneered in substituting electives for required courses and experimenting with new teaching methods
What is Harvard University?
300
The percent women accounted for in the total enrollment of colleges across the United States.
What is 47%?
300
The percent of children enrolled in public elementary and high schools (which caused educators to congratulate themselves) by 1920.
What is 78%?
400
John Dewey's two novels that asserted that children should be taught to use intelligence and ingenuity as instruments for controlling their environment. Advocated that children should learn by direct experience.
What is The School and Society and Democracy (1899) and Education (1916)
400
Many schools considered this to be vital to a student's growth and it became a permanent feature of student life as well as a source of school pride.
What is intercollegiate sports/athletics?
400
A college where Florence Kelley prepared to study law, but the college denied her admission to graduate school based on her gender.
What is the University of Pennsylvania?
400
Four courses/fields that women were not encouraged to go into due to their gender.
What are science, mathematics, law, and medical courses/fields?
400
Two aspects that critical analysis seldom tested in schools to assess how well schools were doing their jobs.
What is the promotion of equality and justice and responsible citizenship?
500
The college where Dewey and his wife incorporated the ideas of learning through direct experience and not by memorization.
What is the University of Chicago?
500
The courses/curriculum women were encouraged to take and learn.
What is home economics and education courses?
500
The number of colleges from 1870 (563) rose to this much by 1910.
What is 1,000?
500
Despite the fact that the white and black institutions were not equal, African Americans found ________ in all-black colleges and hope to use their education to _________.
What is intellectual stimulation and promote the uplifting of their race?
500
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY* The first college founded in American AND the state it is located
What is Harvard University?