Mr. Caldwell - Report topics - History of Education
 
Famous Educators:
Aristotle
Comenius
Condorcet
Confucius
Decroly
Dewey
Erasmus
Fenelon
Ferrer
Francke
Freinet
Freire
Froebel
Geheeb
Grundtvig
Herbart
Kerschensteiner
Key
Korczak
Lancaster
Locke
Montessori
Neill
Parkhurst
Pestalozzi
Plato
Rousseau
De la Salle
 
Other topics:
History of women in education
History of vocational education
History of distance education
History of special education
Hitler Youth
Summerhill
Chicago Laboratory School
Progressive education
Nobel prizes for education
Winnetka Plan
Dalton School
Scopes’ Monkey Trial
Lemon Grove incident
Teaching religion in public schools
Brown v. Board of Education
Sputnik I and American education
Head Start program
Bloom’s taxonomy
Handicapped access to education
Affirmative Action
Theory of multiple intelligences
Jonathan Kozol
Hornbook
New England Primer
Horace Mann
McGuffey Readers
Morrill Act of 1862
National Education Association
Normal schools
Development of kindergarten
Development of pre-schools
Development of schools into grade levels
Development of the role of the principal
American Federation of Teachers
Cardinal principles of secondary education
One-room school houses
Supreme Court on prayer & religion in public   schools
Public Law 94-142: Education of Handicapped Children Act
Supreme Court on Students’ Rights
“Nation at Risk”
“Goals 2000:  National Educational Goals”