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History of Education
Vocab review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Old Deluder Satan Act | Early Colonial law designed to create scripture-literate citizens who would thwart Satan's trickery. |
| Vouchers | Checks or written documents that parents can use to purchase educational services. |
| 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. |
| Common School Movement | A historical attempt to make education available to all children in the US. |
| Normal Schools | Two-Year institutions developed in the early 1800's to prepare prospective elementary teachers. |
| 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. |
| Latin Grammer School | A college preparatory originally designed to help boys prepare for the ministry or later for a career in law. |
| Academy | A secondary school that focused on the practical needs of colonial America as a growing nation. |
| English Classical School | A free secondary School designed to meet the needs of boys not planning to attend college. |
| Junior High Schools | Schools that were originally designed in the early 1900's to provide a unique academic curriculum for early adolescent youth. |
| 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. |
| Assimilation | A process of socializing people so that they adopt dominant social norms and patterns of behavior. |
| "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. |
| War on Poverty | A general term for federal programs designed to eradicate poverty during the 1960's |
| Compensatory education programs | Government attempts to create more equal educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth. |
| Head Start | A federal compensatory education program designed to help 3-5 years old disavantaged children enter school ready to learn. |
| 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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