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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Spencer's first name?

2. Who was the Founder of the Kindergarten?

3. Jefferson joined which organization in 1775?

4. Who was the Leader of the Common School Movement?

5. Jefferson received a degree in which area?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the basic educational background of Mohandas Gandhi? Gandhi's education led him to what type of career?

2. What was the basic educational background of John Dewey?

3. When did Jean-Jacques Rousseau live? What major events occurred during Jean-Jacques Rousseau's lifetime? How were educational ideas changed?

4. When did Thomas Jefferson live? What was his role in early American education?

5. What were Dewey's key steps to solving problems?

6. When did Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi live? How was Switzerland changing during this time? How was Pestalozzi affected?

7. What was the basic educational background of Mary Wollstonecraft? How did it influence her work with women?

8. When did Mohandas Gandhi live? What was the landscape of the Indian government at that time?

9. What was the basic educational background of Jane Addams? How did her ideas pertain to the socialization of education?

10. When did Mary Wollstonecraft live? What major events occurred during this time that greatly affected Mary Wollstonecraft as a woman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The book makes references to the landmark case of Oliver Brown v. The Board of Education. The case took place during the height of the racial upheaval in the south in the 1940s and 1950s, mainly in Little Rock, AR. Discuss the court case and all of its details. What was the final decision in the case? When was the case resolved? Was Du Bois involved in the case? What was his opinion on the decision? Did it help or hinder his ideals and plans for changing the face of education? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Examine the legacy of Gandhi and the overall reform of India via its educational system.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the conflict of religion in schools. Examine which educators struggled to loosen the grasp of the church on various educational systems and its effects, both good and bad.

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