The Multicultural History of American Education Part III

1983, the federal government's National Commission on Educational Excellence issued

The Committee's report, The Cardinal Principles of Education included (select all that apply)

The article, "Certain Degenerative Tendencies among Teachers" explained why women

Following this, school districts responded by

The 8-Year Study showed that students from progressive classrooms

The first junior high school was established in 1909, in

As a progressive educator, Dewey brought into the school curriculum

By 1880 almost 10 million Americans were enrolled in elementary schools. But the gap between

The American high school served the dual purpose of college preparation as well as

Progressive educators assumed that students learn best when their

Which state had the first free secondary school?

Its name was

The curricula of these schools varied widely with some focusing on college prep and others

A Nation at Risk characterized American schools as

Possibly the most influential educator of the 20th century was

The Progressive Education Association - 8 Year Study - compd grads from progressive schools to

This was strongly emphasized in the junior high school curiculum

The English Classical School was

With the teachers becoming predominately women there was a growing concern that they were

President T Roosevelt argued that so many white females became teachers, they were committing

This committee saw high schools as preparation of gifted students, who were typically

Male teachers in the early 1900's carved out their own niches in school systems as

The court ruled in the Kalamazoo, Michigan Case

The Committee of Ten

As secondary schools spread they generally became