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Horace Mann paved the way for every American to have the right to education by supporting the need for free public schools that will not discriminate against each child's beliefs. This event is important because now it allows for every student to receive education no matter what their background is. If it wasn't for Horace Mann's ideas the education system today there would be a chance of no public schools, no funding for schools, and no well-trained teachers (Cremin, 2020).
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The Morrill Land-Grant Act has allowed for many people to receive college degrees and formal secondary education. This act allowed for teachers to receive professional education preparation and learn new teaching methods. This act benefits education still because it began to inspire other colleges to develop in more rural areas. Now that there are many more colleges more people can be educated and learn new things to teach future students (The Civil War: The Senate's Story, 2020).
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Brown Versus the Board of Education is arguably one of the most important rulings involving education. The results of this ruling began the end of segregation in schools and encouraged other acts to make schooling equal for every student no matter the race, ability, or gender of a student. The ruling has also impacted what students are taught about American history, but also how they are taught with more social and emotional learning as well (Films Media Group, 2006, 4:19-6:00minutes).
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A Nation at Risk is an important event in education because it revealed the amount of illiteracy in the USA amongst adults and teenagers. This is important because there was a surge of support for teachers to get paid more and to be appreciated more. Yet there was an added pressure to make the students score higher but encouraged the idea of life long learning and helped develop a system that potentially focuses more on the students and less on exams (Films Media Group, 2006).
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The No Child Left Behind act has left an influential impact on education today, this is because of the increased pressure on teachers, principals, and students. The pressure was in the form of testing and lose standards that were not universally set resulting in many sates dropping their base levels to still receive funding from the government. Due to this act being put in place it had increased pressure on teachers to teach the test instead of what is best for the students (Klein, 2015).
