history about education

  • first high school

    first high school

    The first high school ever built was called The Boston Latin Grammar School which boys were the only ones allowed to attend. Girls weren't going to be ministers or lawyers so they thought there was no point in them attending. the school was mainly built to help boys with their futures.
  • native education

    native education

    Native education included church designed classes that taught religies classes. Their education wasn't as different but they taught agriculture, vocational education, etc.
  • southern colonies

    southern colonies

    -poor whites worked small famers barely scratching an existence
    - they werent able to attend public school because they didnt exist at the time
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    opened an academy which focused on practical needs of colonial America
  • shaping education

    shaping education

    Amendments helped create the education system we have now
  • age of common man

    age of common man

    this consisted of the popular and Down-to- earth hero of war and westward expansion
  • education for all

    education for all

    “Public” schools often charged partial tuition, discouraging all but the wealthiest from attending.This began to change about 1820, when the common school movement, a historic attempt to make education available to all children in the United States, began.
  • horace mann

    horace mann

    he worked on making education available for everyone
  • redefining high school

    redefining high school

    students who didn't want to go farther than high school needed to learn content from college.
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington

    wrote a book of how he was a slave and became an educator
  • war of proverty

    war of proverty

    education funds were increased significantly
  • opening of native school

    opening of native school

    teachers were poorly paid
    materials were limited
    schools had to depend on the government
  • support for learners

    support for learners

    Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) that required a free and appropriate public education for all students, including those with exceptionalities
  • middle colonies

    middle colonies

    -middle colonists belonged to other religious groups
    -religion took a huge part of peoples lifes so it was hard for them to make schools that was convenient to everyone
  • new england colonies

    new england colonies

    they learned how to read and write which helped them with gods word when reading the bible