The History of American Education

 

MATCHING QUESTIONS I

Match the description in column B with the term in column A.

 

 

Column A

Column B

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1.       apprenticeship

a.   developed to prepare teachers

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2.       dame school

b.   arrangement for masters to teach young people a trade

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3.       Northwest Ordinance (1787)

c.   funding targeted to specific populations or goals

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4.       Old Deluder Satan Law

d.   designed to strengthen U.S. education after Sputnik

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5.       middle school

e.   provided assistance for veterans’ education

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6.       Committee of Ten

f.    formed to develop a national policy for high schools

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7.       normal school

g.   developed to educate girls

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8.       Carnegie Unit

h.   in-home teaching during colonial times

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9.       categorical grants

i.    set aside land for educational purposes

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10.       National Defense Education Act

j.    type of school introduced in 20th century

 

 

k.   measurement for evaluating student progress

 

 

l.    required Massachusetts towns to provide education for young people

 

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MATCHING QUESTIONS II: Educators’ Hall of Fame

Match the description in column B with the educator in column A.

 

 

Column A

Column B

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11.       Jean Piaget

a.   developed innovative strategies for teaching children to read, including the “key vocabulary” system

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12.       Mary McLeod Bethune

b.   author of The Process of Education; advocated teaching the structure of knowledge

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13.       Friedrich Froebel

c.   advocated increased educational opportunities for women

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14.       Maria Montessori

d.   provided a theory, based on observations, of cognitive development

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15.       Sylvia Ashton-Warner

e.   noted African American leader and founder of southern black college

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16.       Emma Hart Willard

f.    advocate of progressive education

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17.       Horace Mann

g.   founded the first kindergarten

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18.       B.F. Skinner

h.   led the Common School Movement

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19.       Jerome Bruner

i.    advocated the inclusion of morals and values as primary goal, and a well-balanced curriculum

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20.       John Dewey

j.    author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed; saw education as way to transform society

                       

 

k.   advocated breaking learning down into manageable small steps and using rewards to reinforce learning

                       

 

l.    created innovative methods and practical materials that are widely used in today’s early childhood education programs

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