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Education in Early America
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History of Curriculum Trends
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America's First School - Boston Latin School
John Cotton, a Cambridge graduate and noted Puritan minister, was instrumental in the establishment of the first public school in America. Cotton was passionate about bringing a school to the New World that patterned the Free Grammar School of Boston, England where Latin and Greek were taught. The Town of Boston founded Boston Latin School and became known as a school who teaches its scholars dissent with responsibility. -
Boston Latin School continued
Five of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence had been pupils of the Boston Latin School. The Boston Latin School began free public education and established the classical education that is still used today. -
Massachusetts Education Law
Colonial America EducationThe concept of education came into existence mostly out of necessity in order for the masses to understand the written codes that the colonies were living under. The Law of 1642 required that all parents and master see to it that their children knew the principles of religion and the capital laws of the commonwealth.
Matzat, A. L. (n.d.). Massachusetts Education Laws of 1642 and 1647. Retrieved from https://www3.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/masslaws.html. -
Nation's First Board of Education
Horace Mann VideoDuring an educational reform movement, which arose due to the deteriorating quality of education in Massachusetts, Horace Mann became the secretary of the Nation's first State Board of Education. Mann worked to provide common education to all citizens by establishing nonreligious public schools.
Horace Mann. (2015). The Biography.com website. Retrieved from http://www.biography.com/people/horace-mann-9397522.
