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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.
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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.
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Colonial schools began to form because of William Sayle.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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He released his 1st and 2nd books Eclectic Readers which helped shaped curriculum used in common schools across the country.
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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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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.
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Later changed to Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which allowed students with disabilites to get the education they needed.
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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.
