WGU Foundations of Teaching
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| Horace Mann | Father of American education; "Public education, in the form of tax-supported common (elementary) schools should be a right of all citizens."
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| John Joseph Hughes | Fought for catholic students' rights to use their bible in schools and for taxpayer dollars for Catholic schools (both rejected by state of NY) = secularization of public schools.
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| Catherine Beecher | "women, as mothers, serve a great purpose in maintaining the health of American democracy." = Education of girls should prepare them for this role.
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| Booker T. Washington | Son of a slave and white father; advocated vocational ed. to help African Americans gain skills that would enable them to work their way up the social ladder and improve their economic status.
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| W.E.B. DuBois | Northern Black; advocated focusing educational energies on the top "talented tenth" of the African American community. Helped establish the NAACP.
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| John Dewey | Believed students' learning should be grounded in their experiences; helped establish the Pragmatic philosophy of education and the Progressive educational movement.
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| Ellwood Cubberly | Envisioned an American state school. Created the hierarchical model of school administration used today.
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| Albert Shanker | Leader in the Standards movement; "social promotion offers no incentives for students to excel"; led teacher strike in NY.
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| Linda Brown Thompson | The "Brown" in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Part of a class-action lawsuit brought by the NAACP in behalf of African American students denied enrollment in White schools.
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| Jose Angel Gutierrez | Local school leader who worked to institute a curriculum that was more in line with the needs of the majority Latino student population in the 1960s.
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| Deborah Meier | Leader in urban education reform = democratic schools with environments of caring and high standards raises inner-city school students' achievement; leader in Progressivism
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| E.D. Hirsch Jr. | Founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation; author of the "What Your Child Needs to Know . . ." series; leader in the back-to-basics movement.
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| Mary Lyon | Founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, the first U.S. institution of higher ed. for women.
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| Friedrich Frobel | The Father of kindergarten
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| G. Stanley Hall | Promoted testing students' intellectual abilities. Started APA and American Journalof Psychology. Studies helped begin Progressivism.
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| Benjamin Franklin | Founded the Junto (studies targeting adult males); established the Academy in Philadelphia in 1751 (see Middle Colonies)
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| Josiah Holbrook | Founded the Lyceum, education for adult males consisting of lectures and discussions.
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| James G. Carter | Father of the American Normal School (teacher training college)
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| Justin Smith Morrill | Morrill Act of 1862 which allows states to sell a specified amount of land and use the money to support colleges = encouraged the growth/maintenance of higher education.
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| George Counts | Concerned with the impact that SES and culture have on students' ability to learn; leader in the Progressive movement. Wrote "The Principles of Eduacation" and "Dare the School Build a New Social Order"
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| Noah Webster | Father of American Scholarship in Education
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| Benjamin Rush | Founding father; believed the security of the republic lay in proper education.
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| Know Nothing Party | Goal was to prevent Catholic schools from receiving state and tax-payer funding for schools and ensuring that only the Protestant bible was used in schools.
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| Bernard Bailyn | The idea of "public education" was created by historians who were "educational missionaries."
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| Lloyd P. Jorgensen | The fundamental assumption of the common school movement is "the public school would be an agent of moral/social redemption that resulted from nonsectarian religious instruction"; exposed evils associated with this movement.
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