American Education

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  • Boston Latin opens

    first public school in America

  • Harvard opens

  • First printing press in colonies

  • Massachusetts statute for literacy

    "to read and understand the principles of Regilion and the Capital laws of the country"
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    The Visible World

    Comenius. The first picture book for children designed to teach Latin.

  • Halfway Covenant

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    The New England Primer

    The day and month are unknown to me, but the years are retrieved from Carr, Jean F. "The Bay Pslam Book (1640) The New England Primer (183?)" Introduction. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. 6th ed. Vol. A. Boston: Wadsworth, 2009. 448. Print.

  • Quacker education

    17th century

  • Boston became the second largest publishing center of the English Empire

  • 106,000 Puritans

    Puritans

  • John Leverett, president of Harvard

    moves university's purpose from Puritanism to intellegectual independence

  • Massachusettts statute for teaching "reading and writing for boys but only reading for girls"

  • Massachusettts statute for math for boys

    "cyphering"
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    Primer has same pictorial alphabet

    regardless of region

  • Boston population 12,000

    4 printing shops
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    The Great Awakening

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    nearly 50% Charleston parish poor children indentured

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    638 Bostonian Children indentured

    standardized form used

  • Stockbridge school opens

    John Sergeant establishes school for Mohican children late1730s

  • Bethesda charity school opens in Georgia

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    1400 Boston Children indured

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    Boston military campaigns

  • increased interest in Pennsylvania charity school

  • Friends' Public School extends number of free students to 30

    provision allows children from other religious backgrounds to get a free spot. more education for poor boy "latin" or more advance math and writing

  • New York And Philadelphis Primer editions start

    one print shop in each town

  • Pennsylvania charity schools established

    Henry Muhlenberg
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    Charleston slaves taught to read the Bible and Catechism

    none were taught to write
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    37000 copies of Primer sold

    by Benjamin Franklin and David Hall

  • 12 slots for free schooling at Charelston's charter school

  • Montauk Rhode Island school -Indians

    Occom teacher
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    Rhode Island 2% indentured black and Indian children promised training in a skill

  • Pennsylvania Academy opens

    Benjamin Franklin
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    Rhode Island 725 indentured children

    263 show child's age at time of contract

  • Boston smallpox plague

    569 died

  • System implemented in Charleston to assess charity school and poor students' learning

  • Freinds' Public school

    more education for poor girls

  • Moor's Indian Charity School opens

    Lebanon, Connecticut

  • Friends public school 83 free educations

    25% girls
    1/3 obtained upper level education

  • All Charleston parish children under age 6 get education

  • 8 German charity schools Philadelphia

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    Rhode Island 24% indentured white boys promised training in a skill

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    Boston in economic depression

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    Philadelphia economic depression

  • last of German Philadelphia charty schools close

  • Friends' Public school

    70% upper education

  • Friends' Public school starts teaching really poor instead of middle class

  • Massachusettts statute to teach writing to girls

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Second Continental Congress

    Philadelphia
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    American Revolution

  • Declaration of Independence

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    Blue and Black Speller

    Noah Webster. estimated 10 million copies sold.

  • Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia

  • Constitution

  • Bill of Rights

  • Charleston Orphan House opens

    first municipal orphanage
    8 hours of instruction
    boarding school
    70% brought by parents to attend

  • Rhode Island population was 6% nonwhite

    25% of Rhode Island's indentured children were black,or indian children
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    Charleston Orphan House 265 children

    207 completely indentured
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    Rhode Island 32% indentured white boys promised training in a skill

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    Rhode Island 12% indentured black and Indian children promised training in a skill

  • segration of poor Friends' Publis school

    Weston exclusive academy for the elite Quaker children

  • Rhode Island requires education for children

    only New England state still left without compulsory education

  • American population 3 million

    again just the year here. Crain, Patricia. The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2000. Print.

  • 1 scholarship for Charleston Orphan House boy to Colimbia

    state legislature

  • The Massachusetts Board of Education Created

  • Prussian education system in Massachusetts

    Horace Mann spearheads the new version of public school and "normal" schools