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The curriculum originally taught mainly consisted of reading, writing, and math, not too different from modern day curriculum, the main difference, however, is that religion was also taught heavily which is something not taught in schools during the modern era.
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Education differed throughout all the colonies during the year 1700. In southern colonies, there were no public schools, education was mostly given through private tutors. The middle colonies, due to their religious freedom, were mainly taught their native language, and local religious beliefs. The New England colonies had common schools where they learned the 3 r's "reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic".
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Teachers during this era were allowed to engage in conversation with their students about religion, however they weren't allowed to put one religion above another. Schools began receiving federal funding, while they also had to adhere to federal laws. Something that still happens to this day.
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This is something that affects modern education to this day as this is when it was decided that religion is something that was allowed to be discussed in school, however a teacher would not be able to push the agenda of one religion over another, therefore it couldn't be taught that 1 religion was superior or inferior to another.
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Thomas Jefferson was a firm believer in education and that it was the key to leading to a successful democracy into place. He made sure elementary schools were free and available to all children, this is how schools began to become more established.
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In the year 1820 a change started to occur when it came to education, schools went from being all mainly wealthy kids attending due to tuition costs, to all children being able to go to school and get an education.
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In 1830, the curriculum added the teaching of different languages, as well as citizenship and history, although these were mainly courses taught to wealthier children.
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Horace Mann had a huge impact in making education available to all kids. He was an advocate for the thought that education was the key to having a developed country and to improving the quality of life. Under his influence, Massachusetts built 50 secondary schools, as well as increasing teacher salaries by 50%
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This act allowed the federal government to establish colleges in school in all states, colleges which are still going strong 'till this day were created during this act.
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In 1892, "The Committee of Ten" was formed to examine high-schools about standards, programs, and methods. They came to decide that if i student wanted to pursue education further than high-school, then they would have to be taught content and things that will better prepare them for college.
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John Dewey believed that schools didn't accompany a students needs, and that they needed to be fixed, and he also believed that schools needed to place more focus on critical thinking type of skills, as well as problem solving.
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Psychologists noted that early adolescence is a time of intellectual, emotional, and physical transition, and students undergoing these transitions require a different kind of school. In response to these arguments, educators created junior high schools to provide a unique academic curriculum for early adolescents. The first junior high, for grades 7, 8, and 9, opened in Columbus, Ohio, in 1909. The concept spread quickly, and by 1926, junior highs had been set up in 800 school districts.
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During the great depression, schools somewhat struggled, they faced a short income of cash to be able to fund things as citizens struggled to pay their taxes.
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The Russian launching of the satellite Sputnik in 1957 was a key event of this period. Believing the United States was losing the technology war, our government authorized a fivefold increase in the funding of the National Science Foundation, which was created in 1950 to support research and improve science education. Congress also passed the NDEA in 1958, which was designed to enhance “the security of the nation” by improving instruction in math, science, and foreign languages.
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A new set of textbooks mainly used for reading , to help beginners learn how to read began to be published, even after the 1930's, this textbook helped teach fundamental skills of reading, and helped standardize education.
