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the early history of education in america
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| apprentice | someone who learns a skilled trade by watching and helping someone in the trade. |
| dame schools | students were taught by women in their own homes |
| hornbook | was a flat wooden board with a handle |
| common schools | the first public-supported schools |
| normal schools | one key innovation was the establishment of teacher-training schools |
| McGuffey readers | were a series of graded primers, including grade levels 1-6 |
| progressives | a time of business expansion and reform in the united states. Members of this reform movement called themselves progressives |
| Montessori method | the educational program Maria Montessori developed is known today |
| career & technical education | prepared students for the many career opportunities in specific trades and occupations where skilled workers were needed |
| disposable income | money to spend on things they wanted,not just needed |
| quotas | were set on the number of immigrants allowed in the country |
| baby boom | the result was a surge in birth rate over the next years |
| project head start | help preschool children from low-income families develop skills they needed for success in kindergarten and beyond |
| bilingual education | classes thought in both English and Spanish |
| illiterate | unable to read or write |
| back-to-basic movement | many Americans believed that schools again needed to emphasize reading ,writing ,and math. |
| global economy | finance, international corp., and trade link the economies of nations around the world |
| educational strandards | refer to guidelines defining what students at various levels should know and be able to do. |
| national standards | they also set standards for performance in their subject areas. |
| competency-based education | the teaching toward strandards |
| accountability | proving that schools and teachers were providing high-quality education |
| standardized test | are designed to give a measure of students performance compared with that of very large number of other students. |
| charter schools | a public school that operates with freedom from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools. |
| career clusters | are 16 general career areas each having a wide range of related opportunities. |
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