Education curriculum

By chingh

  • legislation required parents to ensure that their children could read

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    Colonies begin to educate

    Curriculum is deeply rooted in coloniel massachussetts. Many of the colonies had an educational system but were very differents. There were three sections in the colonies those were; New England, the middle colonies nd the southern colonies. New Englands education had much to do with religion.

  • Academies are the first types of vocational education

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    National Education

    During and after the American revolution new education Ideas emerge. Leaders begin to link public schooling with the ideas of freedom.

  • Northwest Ordinance- federal government is involved in advancing education and gave states land for schools

  • The first secular forces are beginning to fight religion in schools

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    Universal Education

    During the western expansion people saw individualism as something highly important. People of all classes were considered important. Schools adopted more diverse curiculum and highschools were born.

  • The first School Boards of Education are born in Massachusettes

  • High Schools became a major US institution when the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that tax dollars could support them

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    the Transitional Period

    During this time period, more and more subjects were being added to the curriculum. Traditional education that long dominated US education was in decline.

  • The Committee on College Entrance Requirements require more dominance of college prep curriculum in high schools

  • Franklin Bobbitt write the first book devoted solely to curriclum ("The Curriculum").

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    Curriculum is born

    Curriculum is now becoming viewed as a science. The ideas of curriculum are appearing in the literature of this time.

  • The Progressive Education Association launched the "Eight-Year Study" to show that a new curriculum designed to meet students's needs and interests was just as effective as the traditional one.

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