quiz 3

Question 1

Educational Testing

Answer 1

• viewed as a tool for the modernization of schools
• used for limiting people - if scored badly would go on the vocational track
• IQ test and standardized test determined educational placement and oppurtunity

Question 2

Comprehensive highschool

Answer 2

• social efficiency, students would be prepared and tracked for their intended role in society
• schools became gateways to economic and social opportunity for wealthy and white (upperclass scored better on tests)

Question 3

south vs. north

Answer 3

south- no pedagogical progressives , separate but equal but underfunded and unsupported.. stayed the same
north- tracking, lack of pedagogical influence
-freed sslaves went to schools and tracked into vocational settings

Question 4

pedagogical progressive

Answer 4

believed in interaction with the environment and use their own experiences to learn within the educational system

Question 5

depression and WW2

Answer 5

• schoosl remained stable for some years after
• rural poor & lower classes were already poor, effects of downturn intensified
• dust bowl, people migrated west and had high drop out rates

Question 6

business efficency

Answer 6

• combatted economic downturn
• teacher salaries cute
• class consolidation
• school closures
• programs cute
• capital improvements cut

Question 7

rural schools

Answer 7

• tied to property taxes
• entire schools closed
• black schools were underfunded and lost more money

Question 8

teacher unions

Answer 8

• American Federation of Teachers (protector of teacher jobs and salaries)
• not useful for agent and social visionaries
• National Education Administration (support for school administrators as members & state tax support for schools)

Question 9

new approaches to education

Answer 9

• teachers college group
• devoted to social analysis of schools and schooling
• sought ways to help citizens, students, and teachers, respond to depression

Question 10

essentialists

Answer 10

• highly critical of child centered progressivism
• critical of educational experiments
• progressive education was weak
• resulted in us students lowed achievement levels

Question 11

end of the depression

Answer 11

• us involvement in WW2 required shift in economic structure
• women left teaching to take factory jobs to assist
• increase in technical track

Question 12

education during wartime

Answer 12

• women moved toward single salary (elementary teachers paid less)
• women moved toward managerial positions