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Christopher Dock, A Mennonite opens a school in Montgomery County, PA.
First book about teaching is published in colonial America.
Many religious groups opened schools in Pennsylvania. -
This catholic school for girls is founded and it is the oldest operating school for girls and the oldest catholic school in the U.S.
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Christan Wolff describes the Faculty Psychology. This viewpoint explains how the mind can be developed through tedious drill and repetition. This view point carries through the 19th century and further.
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This society helps bring European Enlightenment ideas to Colonial America. Ideas clash with religious dogma.
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Is opened.
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Fought for the opening of an academy similar to Latin grammar schools in Maryland, New York, and Massachusetts.
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Benjamin Franklin helps to establish the firs "English Academy" in Philadelphia with a curriculum which is both classical and modern. Later becomes the University of Pennsylvania.
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One of the first Lutheran schools in North America is founded in New York by Hector Melchior Muhlenberg.
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Rousseau's book, Emile, ou l'education, is published. His ideas on the importance of early childhood influences many philosophers.
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Founded a school for girls which becomes Salem College.
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Thomas Jefferson proposes a two-track education system.
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Writes A Grammatical Institue of the English Language, consisting of three volumes. Spelling, grammar, and reader. Widely used in the United States.
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America's first state-chartered university.
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Recognizes the practical importance of education and it stipulates a section of land in every town of each new state must be reserved for the support of education
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Opens in Philadelphia and it is the first academy for girls in the original 13 colonies.
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Is now more liberal and allowed females to attend schools.