History of America's Education

Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson, stating that all students at all levels of educational systems must have equal access to education and that race cannot be used to discriminate

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Progressivism

• Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

• Pragmatism

A reasonable and logical way of doing things or of thinking about problems that is based on dealing with specific situations instead of on ideas and theories; ideology practiced by John Dewey

• Pragmatism

• Legislation

• Segregation

• Progressivism

Separating by ethnicity, age, or gender

• Common school

• Segregation

• Pragmatism

• Progressivism

The idea that the child is the center of the educational process

• Pragmatism

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Legislation

• Progressivism

Laws and procedures dictated by the government

• Progressivism

• Common school

• Legislation

• Pragmatism

Provides mass universal public education at the elementary level

• Pragmatism

• Common school

• Segregation

• Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

Supreme Court decision that established the rationale for separate but equal treatment of the black and white races in the United States

• Pragmatism

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

• Progressivism

When was the Colonial period?

• (1607 – 1775)

• (1776-1820)

When was the Early National Period?

• (1607 – 1775)

• (1776-1820)

What were the Southern Colonies

• Maryland, Virginia, The Carolinas and Georgia

• Hawaii & Texas

• New York, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania