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List of topics based on the 412 intro to American education class notes

October post-midterm

• Education during the Slave Period (needs rename, more on clandestine schools)
• Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois
• Hampton Institute ( Samuel C. Armstrong) and Tuskegee Institute
• Native American boarding schools

November

• Romanticism and education (also Enlightenment and education)
• Emile, or On Education
• Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
• Normal school
• Oswego Movement (rename?), Oswego Normal School, Edward A. Sheldon
• Friedrich Fröbel
• Kindergarten
• William Torrey Harris, another on kindergartens in St. Louis?

11

• Progressive education
• John Dewey
• Hull House
• University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
• W. B. Powell, DC superintendent

13 (Testing)

• Standardized test
• Test preparation
• Phrenology
• History of anthropometry
• Francis Galton
• Alfred Binet
• Frederick Winslow Taylor
• Edward Thorndike
• Lewis Terman
• World War II alpha and beta tests?
• Carl Brigham
• Nature versus nurture

March

• before March 10 goes here
• Education in the American South
• Literacy in the American South (Literacy in the United States)
• Southern black education
• American Missionary Association
• Port Royal Experiment
  • Benjamin Butler (politician)
  • Charles Sumner
  • William Francis Allen
  • Edward Philbrick
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Jim Crow laws
• Racial segregation in the United States
• Booker T. Washington
• W. E. B. DuBois
  • Fisk University

Review

1.

• Puritans
• The Practice of Piety
• The New England Primer
• town schools

2.

• John Harvard
• Henry Dunster
• John Eliot
• Joel Iacoomes
• "praying towns"
• Cotton Mather