Education and Reform

What are dame schools?

• Schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write

• Public state-supported schools that gave the same education to people from different levels of society

• Teacher-training schools

• A series of books that were used in schools across the country

What is a hornbook?

• Schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write

• A flat wooden board with a handle

• The teaching principles developed by Maria Montessori

• A type of education that prepared students for many career opportunities

What were common schools?

• Schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write

• A flat wooden board with a handle

• The first public state-supported schools that gave the same education to people from different levels of society

• A type of education that prepared students for many career opportunities

What were normal schools?

• Schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write

• A flat wooden board with a handle

• The first public state-supported schools that gave the same education to people from different levels of society

• Teacher-training schools

What were McGuffey Readers?

• Schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write

• A flat wooden board with a handle

• A series of books that were used in schools across the country

• The teaching principles developed by Maria Montessori

What is the Montessori Method?

• Schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write

• A flat wooden board with a handle

• The teaching principles developed by Maria Montessori

• A type of education that prepared students for many career opportunities

What is career and technical education?

• Schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write

• A flat wooden board with a handle

• The teaching principles developed by Maria Montessori

• A type of education that prepared students for many career opportunities

What was the Oregon Trail?

• Schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write

• A flat wooden board with a handle

• The only practical route for people to emigrate from Independence, Missouri to the Western United States

• A period of complex economic, technological, and social change in America and worldwide

What was the Industrial Revolution?

• Schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write

• A flat wooden board with a handle

• A period of complex economic, technological, and social change in America and worldwide

• Members of the reform movement during the American Progressive Period

Who were the Progressives?

• Schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write

• A flat wooden board with a handle

• Members of the reform movement during the American Progressive Period

• Money to spend on things people want, not just need