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JOHN LOCKE
English philosopher, children gain knowledge -
latin Grammar Schools
teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language. A secondary school that stesses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11 plus examination -
Massachusetts Bay School Law
First education act. Teach kids to read and write. -
Dame School
early form of a private elementry achool in english speaking countries. usually taught by women and were often located in the home of the teacher -
Deluder Satan Act Of 1647
Requried towns that had 50 or more families hire schoolmasters to teach their children to read and write. Towns with 100 or more families need a schoolmaster to teach the children grammar and prepare them for Harvard College. Teachers were paid by parents. Kickstart for public education. -
CHRISTIAN VON WOLFF
rationalist philosopher of the german enlightenment -
salem witchcraft trials
feb.1692 to may1693 -
Benjamin Franklin
One of the founding fathers of the US. -
Johan Pestalozzi
education and social justice. father of modern education -
French and Indian War 1754 to 1763
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Noah Webster
textbook pioneer. english language spelling reformer. political writer, editor. called father of american scholarship and education -
New England Primer
A book that taught children to read. Had the alaphabet, vowel, consonants, double letters, and symbols. -
New England Primer
First reading primer desighned for the american colonies. most successful edcuational textbook published in america and it became the foundation of most schooling -
friedrich froebel
laid foundation for modern education based on children who have unique needs and capabilities -
Treaty Of Paris 1783
Sep 3, 1783 -
Constituitonal Convention
May 25 to sep 17, 1787 -
Young Ladies Academy
first female academy to set an example for many academies and seminaries that were opened in the late 1700s and early 1800s. extensice curriculum to its student:reading, writing, english grammar, math, geography,rhetoric,compostion, and natural philosphy -
Consitiution and Bill of Rights ratified
9 states ratified the constituition. Promised bill of rights will be added after ratification. -
Horace Mann
american politicain and educational reformer. a whig . often called ather of the common school -
Catherine Beecher
forthright opinions on femake education . incorpation of kindergarten -
william holmes mcgruffey
college president. writing mcgruffey readers.best known school books -
Elizabeth Paler Peabody
first english language kindergaten in the uS -
War of 1812
June 18 -
Elizabeth Blackwell
first women to receive a medical degree. leading public health activist. -
Boston English High school
first public high school. Model after Royal High School in scotland. chaired by Samuel Adams Wells. only ammited boys when first established and then a separate school for girls became coeducation in 1972 -
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Higher education for women, minimum entrance age of 17. $60 a year, low tuition. entrance examination to make sure students are prepared. -
McGuffey Readers
series of graded primers, grade 1-6. some are still used today in private school and in homeschooling -
Kindergarten
school or class the prepares children for first grade. -
new york state asylum for idiots
mentally disabled children and adults. first director was hervey B. Wilbur. -
Booker T washington
manipulate media, raise money, strategized.black decuator -
national teachers Association
100 educators decided to organize and create and organization.
to elevate the character and advace the interest of the profession of teaching -
Alfred Binet
psychologist. indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgement. -
John Dewey
american psychologist, philospoher, deucator. pragmatism. rejected the dualistic epistemology -
US Civil War
April 12 1861 to may 9 1865 -
The First Morrill Act
Also known as Land Grant college Act. First proposed in 1857. Passed by congressin 1859. Then vetoed by the presdient in 1861. resubmitted and passed in 1862. emphazied agriculture and machanic art arts. making oppurtunites for farmers and working people. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln freed all slaves in rebel states. did not free slaves in border states. -
13th Amendment
fully abolitionist slavery -
Howard University
Federally charted, private, doctoral university, high research activity. -
14th Amendment
Grnated citizenship to all born or naturalized americans including former slaves -
maria Montessori
philosophy of education. raising and educatiing children -
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Flagship indian boarding school for natives -
Lincoln University
Land Grants Institution that offers associate, bachelors, and masters degree. -
National Education Association
apporicate guidelines for curriculum content and assessment . -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
U.S. sepreme court case. upheld the rights of states to pass laws or even requiring racial segregation in public and private schools, public transportation, restrooms, and restaurants. -
Lev Vygotsky
develpoed a sociocultural apporach to cognitive develpopment.
emphasis on culture. -
Spanish American War
April to august -
Joliet Junior College
started out as Experimental postgraduate high school program. now community college -
Benjamin Bloom
educational psychologist who made contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery-learning. -
WW1
july 28 1914, nov 11, 1918 -
Madeline C. Hunter
developed a model teaching. shoed effective teacher have a methodolgoy when planning and presenting a lesson.. -
American Federation of Teachers
1916-1961
unionizarion and miltiancy of teachers central concern to american education. town becomes a industial city. -
Smith-Hughes Act
National Vocational Education
U.S. congress promoted vocaitonal agriculture to train people who entered upon or who are preparing to enter the work of the farm. -
progressive education association
Progess of education of education for learning to be effective -
McCarver Elementary School
first as a junior high school later as elementary -
Tennessee v. John Scopes
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Great depression
to oct 1939 -
Jean Piaget
cognitive development and epistemological. pioneering work in child development -
Herbert R Kohl
advocacy of progressive alternative eduation. also a author. -
WW2
sept. 2 1945 -
Gl Bill
Educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in world war 2.Benefits to those who were discharged form armed forces. -
National School Lunch Act
Richard B. Russell NSLA. provided low-cost or free school lunch meals to qualified students through subsideies to schools -
Truman Commission Act
presidents commission onhigher education for american democracy. students developmental ethical principles consistent with democratic ideals -
Brown vs Board of Education
ended legal segregation in public schools -
Ruby Bridges
flirst black child to attent all white elementary in mississippi. -
National Defense Education Act
Provide funding to U.S. education instiutions at all levels -
american assocaiton on intellectual and developmental disabilities
mental retardation. theres articles on autism and other disablilities. -
Civil Rights Act
Equal employment. try to help end discrimintation -
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act
U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson's War on Poverty and has been the most farreaching federal legislation affectiong education ever passed by the U.S. Congress -
Bilingual Education Act
first piece of United states federal legislation that recongnized the needs of limited english speaking ablilitiy students -
Gestalt Theory
the Graz shcool of meinong and benussi. contribution to different fundamental facts of biology and history.
Single Biological Ladder -
title ix of the education amendments of 1972
No person in the US shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of,or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. -
rehabilitation Act
american legislation that guarantees certain rights to people with disablilties. it was the first US frederal civil rights protection for people with disabilities. -
Indian Education act
health, education, welfare, and other gov. agencies to enter contracts with and make grants with indian tribes -
African Institute
allow education to blacks -
Scholastic aptitude test
fairness in educational and psychological tests. standard written english. verbal SAT. variations in intelligence scores and closely associated with variations in patterns of family configuration. -
project head start
a program desighed to rescue poverty most helpless vitcims the deprived children. would meet the needs of the child, medical care, educational care. -
Plyler v Doe
US struck down a astate statute denying funding for education to unauthorized immigrant children and simultaneously struck down a municipal school districts attempt to charge unauthorized immigrants an annual $1000 tuition fee -
California Proposition 227
the right to an education enjoys a level of protection. agured for the effectiveness of english only instructions over bilingual programs based on thhe increase in SAT-9 scores. -
No child left behind
significant new opportunity for families to choose, educators to provide , and eligible lowincome children to receive effective out of school academic care.
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