Expanding Public Education

William Torrey Harris promoted the ideas of what other educators?

• Horace Mann

• John Dewey

• John Jacob

• Horace Greeley

• Horatio Alger

William harris, Horace Mann, and John Dewey would all believe that schools exist for the ____

• children

• teachers

• politicians

• business owners

William Harris believed schools should properly prepare students for full participation in what?

• community life

• big business

• politics

• travel

Many middle-class refrormers believed public schools were training grounds for ______ and _____

• employment

• citizenship

• big business

• politics

• travel

People believed that ​ (a)   development depended on ​ (b)   and ​ (c)   knowledge. As a result, they viewed ​ (d)   as a key to greater ​ (e)   .

• economic
• scientific
• technological
• education
• security and social status
• political
• security and travel

Some saw public schools as the best opportunity to ​ (a)   the millions of ​ (b)   entering American society. And also that public education was necessary for a ​ (c)   democratic nation

• assimilate
• immigrants
• stable and prosperous
• segregate
• children
• unstable and terrible

Most states had established ​ (a)   schools by the ​ (b)   but more did not receive a formal schooling and few went to ​ (c)  

• public
• Civil War
• high
• private
• Mexican American War
• middle
• college

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

• 12
• 16
• 8
• 14
• 10
• 20
• 18
• 4

What did the curriculum emphasize?

• reading

• writing

• arthmetic

• social studies

• P.E.

Some criticisms of the school included what?

• emphasis on rote memorization

• uneven quality of teachers

• terrible school conditions

• abundance of parental involvment