A period during the Middle Ages during which free thought and intellectual inquiry itself, anything that could question the doctrine and dogma of the Church, was stifled, was known as which of the following?

• Age of Repression

  
  

• Pre-Enlightenment Era

  
  

• Dark Ages

  
  

• Age of Religious Jurisdiction

  
  

Which of the following legislative acts led the way for compulsory education?

• Massachusetts Act of 1642

  
  

• Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647

  
  

• National Defense Education Act

  
  

• No Child Left Behind Act

  
  

Which of the following textbooks included moral lessons, word lists, and pronunciation guides that began to generate a national identity apart from Great Britain?

• Hornbook

  
  

• New England Primer

  
  

• Webster’s American Spelling Book

  
  

• McGuffey Reader

  
  

In the late 1800s, “Jim Crow” laws effectively served which of the following purposes?

• initial integration of public schools

• separation of African Americans from mainstream opportunities within the society

  
  

• segregation of public schools

  
  

• integration of African Americans into mainstream opportunities within the society

  
  

Who was a staunch advocate for the provision of a high-quality education to all children in the nineteenth century?

• Noah Webster

  
  

• Thomas Jefferson

  
  

• Horace Mann

  
  

• John Dewey

  
  

The Progressive Education movement is most closely aligned with the pragmatist philosophy of which of the following thinkers?

• Plato

  
  

• St. Thomas Aquinas

  
  

• Alfred North Whitehead

  
  

  
  

• John Dewey

  
  

The report of the National Commission for Excellence in Education that served as a “wake-up call” for American education was known as which of the following?

• First White House Report on American Education

  
  

• A Nation at Risk

  
  

• Project 2061

  
  

• Bilateral Report on Brown v. Board of Education

  
  

“Back to Basics” and the idea that there are core skills and knowledge that all students should acquire for sustaining our social order is characteristic of which philosophy?

• perennialism

• essentialism

• progressivism

• social reconstructionism

John Dewey is most closely associated with which of the following philosophical movements?

• perennialism

• essentialism

• progressivism

• social reconstructionism

Which of the following philosophies suggested that teachers should have an affective emphasis and should engage students in questions of moral dilemmas as a means to understanding the implications of one’s actions?

• perennialism

• essentialism

• progressivism

• social reconstructionism