American Education Flash Cards #2

Project Head Start

helped preschool kids from low-income families get the proper skills needed for kindergarten, 8-week education program, provided social, emotional, and medical services, designed to stop poverty.

Teach for America

2 year commitment, used to gain stronger teachers, students taught in urban and rural public schools.

Committee of 10

Develop a policy for high schools and college prep.

1. series of classes taught in order

2. fewer elective courses

3. courses lasting one year and meeting 4-5 time a week could receive a carnegie unit

4. student who did well could start college early.

No Child Left Behind

an increased emphasis on reading, charter schools to give parents more school options, improve school performance, and increased accountability in schools because if they met state requirements they could receive more money. and resources

Old Deluder Satan Law

religious act, every town of 100 households had to have a Latin Grammar School, and every town of 50 households had to pay a teacher to teach reading and writing, to prepare youth for university and understand the Bible.

Smith Hughes Act of 1917

provided money for training and programs in vocational education at the high school level, prepared students for trade opportunities in trades and skilled jobs.

National Defense Act of 1958

improve math, science, and foreign languages instruction, created to help people afford education and improve education, competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union, made money available to improve science equipment in schools.

Thomas Jefferson

the government should pay for schooling, children of all social classes deserve an education, middle class.

Ben Frankin

established academies

Goals 2000

6 educational goals to be met by the year 2000, it was basically impractical, and school districts and towns would have to meet them.

1. All kids start elementary school ready to learn

2. HS graduation rates increase up to at least 90%

3. Students leave grades knowing basic skills.

Progressive Education

expanded the curriculum to include health, family and vocation, more student interest, better working area in America.