| A | B |
|---|
| Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka | Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson, stating that all students at all levels of educational systems must have equal access to education and that race cannot be used to discriminate |
| Common school | Provides mass universal public education at the elementary level |
| Legislation | Laws and procedures dictated by government |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Supreme Court decision that established rationale for separate but equal treatment of the black and white races in the United States |
| Pragmatism | A reasonable and logical way of doing things or of thinking about problems that is based on dealing with specific situations instead of on ideas and theories; ideology practiced by John Dewey |
| Progressivism | The idea that the child is the center of the educational process |
| Segregation | Separating by ethnicity, age, or gender |
