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Sparked by Horace Mann, the common schools movement was the effort to fund schools in every community with public dollars, and is thus heralded as the start of systematic public schooling in the United States. ... Schools were free, locally funded and governed, regulated to some degree by the state, and open to all White children. -
Was not a movement but the normalization of women being teaching more often than men, giving being a teacher a "feminine" profession. Women have begun to use their own strengths in leadership to excel in corporate industry and at higher education institutions competing with men. By the 1900's, most teachers were women/ -
Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". This carried on into the schools and the schools were separate but not equal. -
Learning to be a democrat means learning to live together, exchange and communicate. Schools are to be seen as part of the community and to carry civil responsibility like all other institutions. He believed that democracy is not just a political system but an ethical ideal with active informed participation by citizens. If democracy is to work it required informed, knowledgeable and wise citizens and, therefore, education has a moral purpose.
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Title IV prohibits discrimination in public schools because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Public schools include elementary schools, secondary schools and public colleges and universities. This equalized the nation worldwide as far as education goes. -
Though the Civil Rights Act began in 1950, the equality of schools didn't take off till the case Brown V Board of Education shook the nation. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The 1954 decision declared that separate educational facilities for white and African American students were inherently unequal.
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Every child, regardless of circumstances at birth, has the ability to reach their full potential. When Head Start was first launched the idea of providing comprehensive health, nutrition, and education services to children in poverty was revolutionary, if not radical.
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is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children. Created many jobs for special education teachers and gave children with disabilities a fair chance in education. -
Called for clear, measurable standards for all school students. Rather than norm-referenced rankings, a standards-based system measures each student against the concrete standard. Curriculum, assessments, and professional development are aligned to the standards. Because each standard clearly states what a student should be able to do at a particular point in his or her education, teachers are able to tell students exactly what they need to work on at a particular time. -
a federal law that provides money for extra educational assistance for poor children in return for improvements in their academic progress.
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