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Frederick Froebel
Froebel discovered that brain development is most dramatic between birth and age three, and recognized the importance of beginning education earlier than was then practiced. T -
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin was deeply active in public affairs in his adopted city, where he helped launch a lending library, hospital and college, and garnered acclaim for his experiments with electricity, among other projects -
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Commons Schools
it help with people that dident have a lot of money that needed schooling for the kids and it was for any kind of race. -
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson's involvement with and support of education is best known through his founding of the University of Virginia, which he established in 1819 as a secular institution after he left the presidency of the United States. -
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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
she opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States.Peabody was educated by her mother, who for a time operated an innovative girls’ school in the home, and from an early age she exhibited an interest in philosophical and theological questions -
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Normal Schools
A school created to train high school graduates to be teachers. -
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McGuffey Readers
The McGuffey’s Readers are a set of academic textbooks that were used originally in United States schools. The material ranges from early schooling and learning the beginning aspects of the alphabet, to connecting religious, moral, and ethical principles. -
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Horace Mann
he overhauled the state's public-education system and established a series of schools to train teachers. Mann later was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and served as president of Antioch College in Ohio -
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Normal Schools
One of the first schools so named, the École Normale Supérieure Normal Superior School, was established in Paris in 1794.Normal schools were established chiefly to train elementary school teachers for common schools known as public schools in the United States. The first public normal school in the United States was founded in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1839. -
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John Dewey
As a philosopher, social reformer and educator, he changed fundamental approaches to teaching and learning. His ideas about education sprang from a philosophy of pragmatism and were central to the Progressive Movement in schooling. -
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Morrill Act
donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. -
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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington controlled the flow of funds to black schools and colleges. -
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Maria Montessori
She opened the first Montessori school the Casa dei Bambini, or Children’s House in Rome on, Subsequently, she traveled the world and wrote extensively about her approach to education, attracting many devotees -
Smith-Hughes Act
The Smith-Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917 was an act of the United States Congress that promoted vocational education in "agriculture, trades and industry, and homemaking", and provided federal funds for this purpose. -
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Dick and Jane Readers
It helps kids with there forensics words and it helps them understand how to pro nous there hard words that cant say. -
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Brown vs. Board of Education
In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional -
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Civil Rights Act
did not address bilingual education directly, but it opened an important door, title VI of the Act specifically prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in any programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. -
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No Child Left Behind
it created a clear role for the federal government in K-12 policy, offering more than $1 billion a year in aid under its first statutory section, known as Title I, to districts to help cover the cost of educating disadvantaged students. -
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Project Head Start
It was deisnged to break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children of low income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional,social,health,nutrional,and psychological needs. -
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Elementary and Secondary Education Act
This law brought education into the forefront of the national assault on poverty and represented a landmark commitment to equal access to quality education -
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Children with Disabilities Act
The Act is a federal law that requires schools to serve the educational needs of eligible students with disabilities.