A History Of Education Timeline

The Colonial Period (1607-1775)

1607

1. Educations was limited, they only learned reading, religion and sometimes writing or mathematics, people who attended higher schools and college were wealth, gentry class boys.

Searching for Equality:The Education of cultural Minorities

1720

Educational inequality is the unequal distribution of academic resources, including school funding, experienced teachers, textbooks, and technology.

The Early National Period (1775-1820)

1775

The school system was still reading, writing, math, and religion, just not as much religion. They also learned Greek, Roman, and English History and now American History.

The common school movement (1820-1865)

1820

Schools were free, locally funded and governed, regulated to some degree by the state, and open to all White children.

The Evolution of the American High School

1900

Students will be exposed to the historical, geographic, political, economic, and sociological events which influenced the development of the United States and the resulting impact on world history.

The modern Era

2000

Girls were usually taught how to read, but not how to write, early public schools in the United States did not focus on academic like math or reading.