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Old Deluder Satan Act   Early Colonial law designed to create scripture-literate citizens who would thwart Satan's trickery.  
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Vouchers   Checks or written documents that parents can use to purchase educational services.  
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Character Education   An approach to developing morality that suggests moral values and positive character traits, such as honesty and citizenship, should be emphasized, taught and rewarded.  
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Common School Movement   A historical attempt to make education available to all children in the US.  
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Normal Schools   Two-Year institutions developed in the early 1800's to prepare prospective elementary teachers.  
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Comprehensive High School   A secondary school that attempts to meet the needs of all students by housing them together and providing curricular activities ( vocational or college predatory programs) geared towards a variety of student ability levels and. Interests.  
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Latin Grammer School   A college preparatory originally designed to help boys prepare for the ministry or later for a career in law.  
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Academy   A secondary school that focused on the practical needs of colonial America as a growing nation.  
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English Classical School   A free secondary School designed to meet the needs of boys not planning to attend college.  
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Junior High Schools   Schools that were originally designed in the early 1900's to provide a unique academic curriculum for early adolescent youth.  
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Middle Schools   Schools typically for grades 6-8, specifically designed to help students through the rapid social, emotional and intellectual changes characteristic of early adolesnce.  
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Assimilation   A process of socializing people so that they adopt dominant social norms and patterns of behavior.  
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"Seperate but Equal"   A policy of segregating minorities in education, transportation, housing, & other areas of public life if opportunities & facilities were considered equal to non-minorities.. In education, that meant separate schools, teachers, curricula and resources.  
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War on Poverty   A general term for federal programs designed to eradicate poverty during the 1960's  
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Compensatory education programs   Government attempts to create more equal educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth.  
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Head Start   A federal compensatory education program designed to help 3-5 years old disavantaged children enter school ready to learn.  
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Title I   A federal compensatory education program that funds supplemental education services for low-income students in elementary and secondary schools.  
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