Education
Emily Robinson
Emily Porterfield
T Flythe
Ross Brigman
Separate But Equal
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Separate but equal was established with the Plessy
vs. Ferguson case on May 18, 1896.
 Homer Plessy took a seat in the “Whites Only”
car of a train and when asked to move, refused.
He was tried and convicted in New Orleans and
then appealed, claiming that he had been
denied equal protection under the Constitution,
to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court
ruled that separate but equal facilities were not
a violation of the Constitution.
This decision was reversed by Brown vs. Board of
Education case in Topeka, Kansas
 The father of an eight-year-old girl, Linda Brown,
charged the Board of Education because he
thought they were violating Linda’s rights by
denying her the right to attend an all white
school that was only four blocks from her house
when the elementary school that was blacks
only was almost 21 blocks away from her
house. Unanimously, the supreme court voted
that segregation in schools was
unconstitutional and a violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment and the Equal
Protection Clause.
Integration in Education
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Due to the Brown vs. Board of Education court
case, within almost a year over 500 school
districts in places such as Baltimore, St. Louis,
and Washington, D.C. had desegregated.
The Supreme Court in 1955 handed down a
second ruling like the Brown one that ordered
schools to desegregate quickly, however after
the ruling President Eisenhower was not ready
to enforce schools to abide by this law.
A crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas displayed the
white residents anger and frustration over the
desegregation planned for Central High
School. The nine black students who planned
to attend the school and take action on the
integration were to be turned away on the first
day by the National Guard, who were ordered
to do so by Governor Orval Faubus. They went
to school anyway and this forced Eisenhower
to act in favor of desegregation. He ordered
1,000 paratroopers into Little Rock, and under
their watch, the children attended school.
This crisis led to the Civil Rights Act of 1957,
which gave the attorney general the greater
power over school desegregation.
Cognitive Development / Piaget's
Stages
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Cognitive psychology is the
study of the internal memory
and learning process
especially in language,
problem solving, and
memory.
Jean Piaget comes up with
the theory of development –
necessity for younger
children under 11 to learn
with examples.
Sensorimotor,
Preoperational, Concrete
Operational, Formal
Operational
Piaget’s Stages
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Sensorimotor stage- birth-2 years. Experiences the world through
actions, object permanence and stranger anxiety
Preoperational Stage- 2-6 years. Representing things with words and
images but without logical reasoning, egocentrism, language
development
Concrete Operational- 7-11 years. thinking logically...conservation, math
Post Operational- 12-adulthood. abstract reasoning.
Behaviorism
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motivation
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
Intrinsic motivation occurs when someone does
something without obvious motivation from an
outside influence or incentives
Extrinsic motivation occurs only when someone
does something for an outsiders incentive or
reward. The only reason they are doing this is
because they are being rewarded
Behaviorism
Operant conditioning
 A part of extrinsic motivation
 This modifies voluntary behavior
 This is a skinner box which test operant
conditioning
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Works Cited
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Gerald, Danzer A., J. Jorge Klor De Alva, Larry S. Krieger, Louis E. Wilson, and Nancy
Woloch. The Americans. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2003.
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