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Education in the Colonial Period 1776
Education in the Colonial Period 1776
This is the start of American education. We have become free people and we are trying to figure out how we will be educating our future children. -
The Impact of Jefferson, Rush, & Webster
The Impact of Jefferson, Rush, & Webster
These men wanted education to be free for all students this is the start of public school today. They had a big impact that education is important and put our country culture to appreciate it. -
The Progressive Reform Movement
The Progressive Reform Movement 1890
We are still doing this process in our schools today. We still do the bell schedule and separate subject for different time of days. That the student goes around and goes to different classes. This impacts our schools today. We still want to help our student be physical as well as academics. This also helps our student to not be required to work and give them a time to learn. -
Committee of Ten 1892
This committee was realizing the need for standardized education and try to help develop a curriculum. This was a time to help all student get a good and equal education, -
The Impact of John Dewey
The Impact of John Dewey
His political and philosophical ideas have influenced how we do schools today. He is father of progressivism. He changed the way teachers student act. It was very subject focus kind of learning and we still do that today in our schools today. We still use his practices today and it has some good and bad effects in our education. it been over one hundred years and we still use his way of teaching and running a school -
Common Schools 1900
Common Schools 1900
These are some of the first schools that were available to our students. They focus on subject such as math, literature, history and reading. Today we still teach these subject -
Population Growth and Immigration
Population Growth and Immigration in the 19th century 1910
The growth and demands for school help is have schools today. This is the start of it all. people started the american culture of putting values in education and the need of public schools. -
The Measurement Movement
This was a time when IQ test was developed and this has changed the way we assess our students. We do standardized test to see if our student are smart enough. -
Secondary School Movement 1940
Secondary School Movement 1940
This is a time when education made the different levels in education. the need to put student by their ages and understanding together to learn. -
The Impact of WW2 1945
The Impact of WW2 1945
This was a time after the depression was over. The school was in bad shape and a lot of teacher was fight and student was not in the classroom. It stops education but put a more focus on trades. This help out student to understand that trade school are good as well as university. -
Sputnik and NDEA,
This was a good motivation for our schools to be better and try to learn things so we can advance technology to protect our country. -
The Civil Rights Movement
This was a change in not having school be separated by colors. This causes the disability act to come too and this change a lot of our student education. We are still impacted by this and we still are trying to get equal right for our entire student learning. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1965
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1965
This increase the federal money into the school system to get our student ready for college and other duties they will carry. This act help education get focus on what need to be taught and move us forward. -
A Nation at Risk Report, 1983
A Nation at Risk Report, 1983
This was a time when change was needed. This change to have more focus on basic skill, language and technology in the classroom. This also made school go for longer time during the year. This was a time that the federal government step in and made some changes to help education have more computation. -
School Choice Movement: Charter Schools, Vouchers
School Choice Movement: Charter Schools, Vouchers
This allows the parents to choose what school they want their child want to go. This increases the computation in schooling. They could transfer their funding to a charter school if desire. -
No Child Left Behind
I see this one still have an impact on our education. We are still fighting on how we are to assess our student. Because of this law our school has change to become more test focus. This also impacted our nation to trying to find common ground for all our students. This law has change the culture of public school and it had add a stressor to the teacher as well as the students. The money of education is more being spent to develop standardized test.
