Tuesday, September 13, 2016

How much do you already know about the history of American Education?

After taking the quiz, I was surprised to see that it didn't give me a grade.  It just gave percentages of true and false answers.  I had the results emailed to me.  I am posting them below.  I would've gotten 5 out of the 10 questions correct.  Numbers 2, 4, 7, 8, and 9 I got wrong. 


 Question 1:The first kindergarten in America was in Wisconsin.
(398 responses)
55%TRUE
45%FALSE


Question 2:One of the first colleges in the western hemisphere to admit low-income students was Stanford University in California.
(396 responses)
47%TRUE
53%FALSE


Question 3:The first medical diploma in the U.S. was granted by Harvard.
(396 responses)
78%TRUE
22%FALSE


Question 4:The first woman's college endowed by a woman was Smith.
(393 responses)
62%TRUE
38%FALSE


Question 5:Until the middle of the 19th centuries, most classrooms contained students in multiple grades.
(391 responses)
82%TRUE
18%FALSE


Question 6:Massachusetts was the first state to have schools with blackboards, put erasers on pencils, and actually prepare teachers for their jobs.
(394 responses)
77%TRUE
23%FALSE


Question 7:Gallaudet University in Washington, DC was founded to educate the deaf and hard of hearing.
(390 responses)
76%TRUE
24%FALSE


Question 8:Ohio's Wilberforce University was the first institution of higher education owned and operated by African Americans in the United States.
(389 responses)
58%TRUE
42%FALSE


Question 9:Normal schools were created to transform difficult students into productive members of society.
(393 responses)
36%TRUE
64%FALSE


Question 10:Dame schools prepared women in the finer social skills.
(394 responses)
57%TRUE
43%FALSE

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