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a kindergarten 9x 12.5% stumper $775 avg J:1 DJ:7 FJ:1
DJ $200 1998 Usually the first unit of elementary school, its name is German for "children's garden"
DJ $600 1990 After a trip to Germany, Susan Blow established the 1st U.S. public school of this type in St. Louis
DJ $1,000 DD 1994 The first public version of these schools invented by Friedrich Froebel opened in St. Louis in 1873
Maria Montessori 8x 12.5% stumper $1,125 avg J:2 DJ:6
DJ $400 1990 The 1st female med school grad in Italy, she revolutionized methods of teaching young children
J $500 1984 A progressive preschool program was named for this Italian woman
J $1,000 2015 In 1907, in a slum in Rome, she set up her casa dei bambini, or "children's house"
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Princeton 7x 14.3% stumper $486 avg J:5 DJ:2
J $200 2001 This Ivy League school gave Bill Bradley his B.A.
DJ $800 2019 The Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs
J $1,000 2012 The Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs is located at this university
Yale 6x $433 avg J:5 DJ:1
J $200 2020 Built in 1752, Connecticut Hall is the oldest building on the campus of this university
J $800 2020 Here's Handsome Dan, who became the mascot of this school in 1889
J $400 2017 Founded 1701 & located in a town just west of East Haven, Connecticut
Horace Mann 6x 33.3% stumper $967 avg J:1 DJ:5
DJ $800 1994 This Mass. educator was valedictorian of his 1819 graduating class at Brown University
J $1,000 2009 In 1838 this Massachusetts educator founded the biweekly Common School Journal for teachers
DJ $1,000 1993 In 1837 he became the first secretary of Massachusetts' Board of Education
Harvard 6x 33.3% stumper $333 avg J:5 DJ:1
J $200 2018 Ralph Waldo Emerson started attending this college at age 14, graduated & then began teaching there at age 18
J $800 2017 You may seek "Forgiveness" & "Elementary Syriac" at its noted divinity school
J $200 2013 Its main campus lies along the Charles River
Brown 5x $400 avg J:4 DJ:1
J $200 2020 In 1764 this school, then called Rhode Island College, became the 7th college chartered in America
DJ $800 2015 The main campus of this "colorful" university that moved to Providence in 1770 sits on College Hill
J $200 2017 Oh yeah, Nietzsche & Freud come up in the "Guilt and Shame" philosophy course at this Rhode Island school
the American Federation of Teachers 5x 60.0% stumper $800 avg J:1 DJ:4
J $200 2011 Randi Weingarten, now president of this union, also serves on the executive council of the AFL-CIO
DJ $800 1994 This teachers' union affiliated with the AFL-CIO was founded in 1916
DJ $1,600 2007 This union founded in 1916 also includes school custodians as well as the people in its name
Head Start 4x $650 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $300 1985 Federal preschool program for the poor that gives kids what its title promises
J $500 1987 Program established by the U.S. government in 1964 to give kids a jump on kindergarten & life
DJ $1,000 1994 Begun in 1965, this federal program offers services for handicapped & disadvantaged preschoolers
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