Midterm (real)

Question 1

Harvard, first American college, founded in Massachusetts for the purpose of training ministers of the Gospel

Answer 1

1636

Question 2

Bay Psalm Book - first book printed in the colonies

Answer 2

1640

Question 3

Massachusetts compulsory education law

Answer 3

1642

Question 4

First general school law, Old Deluder Satan Act, passed in

Massachusetts; provided for the establishment of grammar schools so children could read the Scriptures

Answer 4

1647

Question 5

First American textbook, Noah Webster’s spelling book,

published

Answer 5

1783

Question 6

Lands as federal aid were implemented by the Northwest Ordinance which said that schools were necessary to promote “religion, morality, and knowledge.” (Voted again in 1789 under newly ratified Constitution.)

Answer 6

1787

Question 7

Passage of the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reserved education for the various states

Answer 7

1791

Question 8

Benjamin Franklin organizes Academy in Philadelphia which later became the University of Pennsylvania

Answer 8

1751

Question 9

First tax-supported high school established in Boston

Answer 9

1821

Question 10

The first private normal school for teachers organized in Vermont

Answer 10

1823

Question 11

McGuffey Readers began and continued to have an enormous influence for over a century.

Answer 11

1836

Question 12

Horace Mann, first state Secretary of Education, started “Common School Revival” - first public school started and the Bible still taught.

Answer 12

1837

Question 13

First state normal school organized at Lexington, Massachusetts

Answer 13

1839

Question 14

National Teacher’s Association formed, now known as the NEA National Education Association

Answer 14

1857

Question 15

First U.S. kindergarten established at Watertown, Wisconsin

Answer 15

1855

Question 16

Association of American Universities organized; McGuffey Readers replaces New England Primer

Answer 16

1900

Question 17

John Dewey, the father of Progressive Education, introduced socialistic, anti-Christian philosophy in the schools. The Bible was separated from academic studies.

Answer 17

1905

Question 18

The Humanist Manifesto, written by John Dewey and 33 other
signers, enunciated the doctrine of secular humanism. God and the supernatural were rejected and replaced with man’s reasoning and science.

Answer 18

1933

Question 19

Legal compulsory education made effective in all states

Answer 19

1918

Question 20

In the Oregon decision, Supreme Court articulated constitutional right of parents to choose whether they wish their children to be educated in public or private schools

Answer 20

1925

Question 21

In the Oregon decision, Supreme Court articulated constitutional right of parents to choose whether they wish their children to be educated in public or private schools

Answer 21

1954

Question 22

New York Board of Regents approved school prayer; U.S. 
Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.

Answer 22

1962

Question 23

A Beka Book officially began.

Answer 23

1972

Question 24

Goals 2000: Educate America Act – Outcome Based Education

Answer 24

1994

Question 25

U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Ten Commandments unconstitutional to
post in Kentucky schools for their
work in state-mandated testing.

Answer 25

1980

Question 26

No Child Left Behind Act – targets improving test scores / reading skills

Answer 26

2001

Question 27

A Nation at Risk – a report about the decline in education

Answer 27

1983

Question 28

Common Core State Standards – state-led effort coordinated by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. Standards were developed in collaboration with teachers, school administrators, and experts, to provide a clear and consistent framework to prepare our children for college and the workforce.

Answer 28

2009

Question 29

What are the three distinct periods of education?

Answer 29

``` Calvinistic Ethic (1607-1840s) Hegalian Mindset (1840s-WWI) Progressive (WWI-Present) ```

Question 30

Which period of education had a very high literacy rate?

Answer 30

Calvinistic Ethic

Question 31

Which period of education focused on glorifying God?

Answer 31

Calvinistic Ethic

Question 32

Which period of education had a high literacy rate (not very high)?

Answer 32

Hegalian Mindset

Question 33

Which period of education focused on glorifying man?

Answer 33

Hegalian Mindset

Question 34

Which period of education replaced religion with Science and Evolution?

Answer 34

Progressive

Question 35

Who created the first lab for psychological research? Where?

Answer 35

Wilhelm Wendt; the University of Leipzig

Question 36

Who is known for social philosophy?

Answer 36

Dewey

Question 37

Who is known for Theories & Techniques?

Answer 37

Thorndike

Question 38

Who is known for Organizing Energy?

Answer 38

Cattell

Question 39

Who created a new method for reading, specifically designed for the deaf?

Answer 39

Rev. Thomas Gallaudet

Question 40

Who wrote The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading? When?

Answer 40

Endmund Burke Huey; 1908

Question 41

What two books did Rudolf Flesch write? When?

Answer 41

Why Jonny Can’t Read (1955) | Why Jonny Still Can’t Read (1981)

Question 42

Good education is measured by _____, not _____ (according to Four Centuries of American Education).

Answer 42

What a student learns, not technological advances.

Question 43

What does utopia mean?

Answer 43

“no place”

Question 44

Robert Owen, and influential socialist, believed that Man is _____ and that it is society’s job to teach children _____.

Answer 44

Basically good; to be good.