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Colonial Period
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Massachusetts Act of 1642
Americas first step to compulsory education. The law required that parents and masters see to it that their children knew the principles of religion and capital wealth of common wealth, in order to abide by the governing laws of the land. -
The Old Deluder Act, Satan Act
Born from the neglegence of the Massachusetts Act, it stated that every town with more then 50 families must appoint a teacher to teach them to read and write. -
Educational systems are formed
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Early National Period
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Benjamin Franklin
He played a major role in the founding in the educational system, he helped found the first "English Academy" in Philadelphia. Franklin's school offers a religion-based curriculum, like its Latin School counterpart, but it also teaches courses that apply to everyday life, such as history, merchant accounts, algebra, surveying, modern languages, and navigation. -
Separation of church and state
The First Amendment in the Bill of Rights was to separate the church and state because the founding fathers did not want government to affect the peoples choice for religion. -
10th Amendment
The Bill of Rights 10th Amendment made it so that the states had the power, and it removed the federal government form a central role in education. It also gave the rights to run public schools to each individual state -
Thomas Jefferson
Believed that education in the new republic could beused to educate the new citizen and a system of publicly supported schools should be created in the states to allow the poor to receive an education aswell as the weathly -
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Common School Movement
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Willian Holmes McGuffey
He released his 1st and 2nd books Eclectic Readers which helped shaped curriculum used in common schools across the country. -
Horace Mann
Considered the Father of American Public Education.
He faught for an educational system that sought to develop character. Believed that education would make the nation prosperous and “redeem the state from social vices and crimes” -
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Current
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Sputnik
Within a year of Sputniks orbit around the Earth, Congress passed the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) which poured billions of dollars to the US educational system with emphasis in math and science. -
Free Appropriate Public Education for Children with Disabilities
Later changed to Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which allowed students with disabilites to get the education they needed. -
No Child Left Behind
George W. Bush passed NCLB into law, it was used to support standards-based education reform based on premise that setting high standards and espablishing measurable improvement.
