WGU Foundations of Education Module 1

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Roberts vs. City of Boston
Separate, segregated schools were legal
Ashmum Institute1854
First School of higher learning for Black men
Wilberforce University1856
First Black University owned & governed by Blacks-Founded by African Methodist Episcopal Church-President Daniel Payne - 1st Black university president in the country
Daniel Payne
First Black university president Wilberforce University
First all black law school
Howard University 1869
Booker T. Washington
-Tuskegee Institute-Leader of higher education of Blacks
Brown vs Board of Education1954
Segregation in public schools unconstitutional
What reasons did the early settlers educate the Native Americans?
1) they believed they had to civilize the indigenous people into their way of life 2) conversion to Christianity
Where were the Native Americans educated?
Mission schools
What is the 50/50 curriculum?
Half the time the students were taught traditional reading, writing, and arithmetic, as well as Christianity, the other half was focused on vocational and farming or agricultural skills for the boys, or sewing cooking and quilting for the girls.
Emma Willard
The Troy Academy a school for women
Mary Lyon
-Mount Holyoke Seminary -Oldest College for women in the USA
Oberlin College
First institution to offer coeducation to men and women
1918 Compulsory Education Act
Required all children to attend school
B.F. Skinner
-Behaviorism -Believed that children could be conditioned to learn just about anything a teacher desired