Chapter 10 Flashcards
(21 cards)
A concept that students from less advantageous backgrounds should have equal opportunities to experience success in school.
Equality of educational opportunity
A school run by a housewife during early colonial days
Dame Schools
A Massachusetts law passed in 1647 that strengthened and early law requiring children to be educated. Base on the idea everyone should be able to read the bible.
Old Deluder Satan Act
A New England elementary school during early colonial period, required in every town of 50 or more people
Town school
A school of the colonial period wherein a teacher moved from village to village, spending several months in each town.
Moving school
A type of school that succeeded the town school and moving school in New England.
District School
A type of school in the middle states during colonial times, licensed by the civil government but not protected or financed by it.
Private venture schools.
Public elementary schools open to children of all classes. Focused on the average person
Common school
Schooling for everyone at public expense and under public control.
Universal Education
First type of secondary school in the colonies. Purpose was to prepare students for college
Latin Grammar school
A form of secondary education that followed latin grammar schools. Provide a practical alternative to students not interested in college
English Grammar School
A type of secondary school during the early national period that tried to combine the best of latin and english grammar schools.
Academy
The predominant form of secondary education in America in the twentieth century. Provides both preparation for college and vocational education
PUblic comprehensive High School
A school comprised of grades 7,8,9
Junior High
A school comprised of grades 6,7,8
middle school
The majority of private schools in the U.S. have what
A religious orientation
Legislation that that gave states federal land for agriculture and mechanical education.
Morrill Act
Colleges and universities created for African Americans as a result of the second Morrill Act
1890 institutions
school segregation by law
de jure school segregation
Segregation as a result of crowding African Americans into isolated neighborhoods
de facto school segregation
