Unit 4 Vocabulary
For this activity, you will be assigned certain important places or events. You will prepare a description
for each of the following vocabulary words, which you will present to the class. The description must
include where, when, who/what, and how the term, place, event or person impacted American
Education.
Important Terms, Places or Events
Historical Interpretation
Age of Pericles
Dame School
Morrill Land Grant
Northwest Ordinance
Hornbook
Blue-Backed Speller
McGuffey’s Reader
One-Room School
GI Bill
Equal Education Opportunity
Committee of Ten
General Education Development
Normal Schools
Separate But Equal
Judicial Interpretive Process
Affirmative Action
Apprenticeship
Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
Common School
Brown v. Board of Education
Kalamazoo School Court Case
Plessy v. Ferguson
Title VI
Socratic Method
Old Deluder Satan Act
Harvard University
Discrimination
Smith-Hughes Act
New England Primer
Slates
Religion Affiliated Schools
Parochial Schools
Home Schooling
Categorical Federal Aid
No Child Left Behind
Seven Cardinal Principles
The Eight-Year Study
Segregation
Enabling Laws
Lemon Test
Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)
Behaviorism
Carnegie Unit
PL 94-142
National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
Title IV
Title IX
Important People
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Mary McLeod Bethune
Comenius
John Dewey
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire
Johann Herbart
Horace Mann
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Jerome Bruner
Kenneth Clark
Prudence Crandall
Benjamin Franklin
Friedrich Froebel
Thomas Jefferson
Maria Montessori
Benjamin Banneker
Burrhus Fredrick Skinner
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emma Hart Willard
Booker T. Washington
Fredrick Douglass
Jean Piaget