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The Impact of Jefferson, Rush, & Webster
Thomas Jefferson wanted to establish schools in every district in order to educate everyone, and then choose those most qualified to go to higher education. Benjamin Rush focused on the type of education that women needed, and Noah Webster focused on discouraging the study of old or dead languages that were no longer in good use for Americans. -
Common Schools
The common school movement began around the 1830s and it advocated for public schools to be an access for every child in the United States. There was a lot of controversy over whether or not the schools should be paid for with taxes from the citizens, but they eventually decided that it should be in order to ensure that every child got an education. -
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The Impact of Horace Mann
Horace Mann was an advocate for the establishment of free public education for everyone. He believed that public education was the best way to educate Americans into good, disciplined citizens. -
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Population Growth and Immigration in the 19th century
In the late nineteenth century, millions of immigrants came over to America from many different countries and took advantage of the public school system. There were a lot of difficulties that came with it, and a lot of those difficulties are still sort of being dealt with even today, but it still gave those immigrants a lot more opportunities that they did not have before they came over to the United States. -
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The Impact of John Dewey
John Dewey was an educator whose ideas about education have been influential to us even to this day. He liked to focus more on a child-centered, democratic approach to schooling, and his ideas mostly came from a pragmatist paradigm that emphasized the importance of a learner's interaction with the environment around them. -
Committee of Ten
The Committee of Ten was a group of educators who got together during the late 1800s that recommended the standardization of American high school curriculum. The committee made recommendations that outlined important curricular knowledge within Latin, Greek, English, 'Other Modern Languages', mathematics, and the sciences. -
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Secondary School Movement
During the early 1900s, there was a movement that advocated for secondary schools, or high schools, to be included in the public school system that would give higher education to everyone. This movement was brought about in order to prepare young teenagers more for life and even college in some cases. -
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The Impact of World War II
World War II had a lot of impacts on education in that it influenced many different academic concepts for students to learn, it measured their intelligence differently, and the overall way that certain subjects were taught. The war also changed the way that students were treated and what was expected from them as well, which is still affecting students in school to this day. -
Brown vs. Board of Education (Most Important)
Brown vs. Board of Education was where the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to separate children in schools based on race. It overruled the Plessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896 that created the separate but equal principle. There was a lot of controversy over this decision, but there is no doubt that it had a huge effect on public education that made it more accessible and equal for everyone then, now, and in the future as well. https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=87 -
The National Defense Education Act
The National Defense Education Act was implemented by Dwight D. Eisenhower to increase funding for education. This was put into place in order to increase the technological sophistication and power of the United States because of the fact that a lot of people felt that the United States scientists were not advanced enough as the scientists in the Soviet Union. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Most Important)
ESEA was passed by Lyndon B. Johnson to address the issue of poverty in the United States. Its intention was to give more funds to education and shorten the achievement gaps between students by giving each child fair and equal opportunities to have a good education. Even though our educations system has strayed a bit from this, it still affects certain laws of funding for education today. http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/education/elementary-and-secondary-education-act-of-1965/ -
Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (Most Important)
IDEA was a law made by Congress that ensured that children with disabilities had an opportunity to have an education just like everyone else. There were a lot of problems that came with it, but it still gave children with special needs more education than they had ever had before. Today, nearly every child with special needs is given the opportunity to have a quality education that fits their needs. http://www.edcentral.org/edcyclopedia/individuals-with-disabilities-education-act-overview/ -
A Nation at Risk Report (Most Important)
A Nation at Risk was proposed by Ronald Reagan that advocated for higher standards in education for a more competitive work force. This was what gave the amount of time kids spend at school today, how many years of math, history, English and science they have to do, and it also created standardized testing as well. Today, this is still having an impact on our education system with how kids are taught. https://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/a-nation-at-risk/ -
No Child Left Behind (Most Important)
The No Child Left Behind Act was a reform on education made by George W. Bush. Its goal was to increase the quality of public education by creating new standards of teaching and testing, specifically with testing kids annually in grades 3-8. This act is still effecting the public education system today with the standardized testing and the way students are evaluated in school. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/nochild/nclb.html -
Every Student Succeeds Act
The Every Student Succeeds Act was what replaced the No Child Left Behind Act with modifications and and provisions on the standardized testing rules. It got rid of the standards that were placed on low-performing schools and how teachers were evaluated based on how well students did in their classes. The new implications for this education reform bill is the most current, and they go into full effect in the 2017-18 school year.
