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Religion was a major reason early settlers to American and was a major force in shaping colonial schools.
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The relationship between religion and schooling, so dominant in the colonial period.
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Prominent european philosophers were changing the way people thought about schools, teacher, and children.
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Education was a privilege reserved for weathy males, with the passage of the Old Deluder Satan Act.
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The constitution removes formal religion from the schools and establishes state responsibility in education.
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For example, when Russia launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957 and appeared to be winning the space race, a torrent of federal funds was released with the goal of improving instruction in math and science in our country.
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First Amendment, which prohibited the government from passing legistation to established any one official religion over another. This creaded the principle widely know as a seperation of church and state.
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The constitution's framers sidestepped the issue with the Tenth Amendment, which said that areas not explicitly assigned to the federal government would be the responsibility of each state.
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Free public schooling becomes accessible to most students.
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States and local governments directly taxed citized to support public schools.
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The creation of normal schools, 2 years institutuion develped to prepare prospective elementary teachers.
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Technology, private schools
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The policy remined in place until it was overturned by the Supreme court in 1954 in the famous watershed
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Reuthorization of the Elementary and secondary Education Act that mandates statelevel testing in rreading and math for 3-8 and holds individuals schools accountable for students achivement in these areas