Expanding Public Education

William Torrey Harris was an educational reformer who promoted the ideas of ____ and ____ who believed that schools exist for the children and not the teachers.

• Horace Mann

• Horace Greeley

• John Dewey

• John Jay

• John Jacob Astor

Many middle-class reformers viewed the public schools as training grounds for what?

• employment

• citizenship

• ranching

• marriage

• government

Many beleived that public education was necessary for a stable and prosperous ____ nation

• democratic

• dictatorial

• demonic

• nomadic

Most states had established public schools by the ____ but many school-age children received no formal schooling and were done within 4 years.

• Civil War

• War of 1812

• Mexican American War

• Spanish American War

Between 1865 and 1895, states passed laws requiring ​ (a)   weeks of school attendance by students between the ages of ​ (b)   .

• 12 to 16
• 8 and 14
• 10 to 18
• 9 to 5
• 4 and 14
• 12 and 18

What did the curriculum emphasize?

• Reading

• Writing

• Arithmetic

• Science

• P.E.

What drew criticism of the school system?

• Emphasis on rote memorization

• Uneven quality of teachers

• Excellent school buildings

• funding of schools

• government involvement

What made school miserable to some students?

• strict rules

• physical punishment

• excellent teachers

• no homework

• science trips

​ (a)   became popular; employed mothers. Offered childcare.

• Kindergartens
• Elementary school
• middle school
• High School
• Middle School
• Elementary School

Although the pattern in public education was one of growth, opportunities differed sharply for ____ and ____ students

• white

• black

• Asian

• Canadian

• British