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So it Begins
The first public school opens in Boston Massachusetts.
The Boston Latin School teaches "contemporary classical education." -
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Pre-Free Schooling
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WE NEED SCHOOLS
The General Court of assachusetts Bay decrees that every town of 50 families should have an elementary school and that every town of 100 families should have a latin school. The goal is to ensure thatPuritan children learn to read the bible and receive basic information about their Calvinist religion. -
TJ said WHAT?
Thomas Jefferson proposes a two-track educational system, with different tracks in his words for "the laboring and the learned."Scholarship would allow a very few of the laboring class to advance, Jefferson says, by "raking a fewgeniuses from the rubbish."
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Free schooling for the needy in PA
Pennsylvania state constitution calls for free public education but only forpoor children. It is expected that rich people will pay for their childrewn's schooling. -
The First Signs of Organization
The first teachers' union was formed with only 100 members. -
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The Public Foots the Bill
Public schools become a tax-payers burden.
At once allowing broader access while confusing standards -
Reason Prevails!
With the launch of Sputnik, fear inspired the re-vamping of the science and math curricul in public schools. -
The First Edition of Common Core
NGA and CCSSO release for public comment a draft of college and career ready standards (a product of input from the standards' writing team, state education agency leaders, and a panel of outside education experts and practitioners). Nearly 1,000 responses, summarized here, were received from educators and the public.
ref: http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/development-process/#timeline-2007 accessed: 02012016 -
Resources
www.raceforward.org, accessed: 02042016, 9:50 PM
www.corestandards.org, accessed: 02042016, 10:00 PM
