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American Education and Religion
The Pilgrims came from England aboard the Mayflower and arrived at Cape Cod where they established Plymouth Colony. Puritans from England and Holland who had escaped England’s religious persecution. With their own religious beliefs, their views came to dominate the influence of education in the New England colonies. -
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History of American Education
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American Education and Religion
School’s main purpose was to prepare boys for leadership within the church, state, and court system with a foundation based on religion. Boys ages 8 to 15 from certain social classes attended in order to prepare for college. This is the first public school. -
American Education and Curriculum
The first New England Primer is printed in Boston. This was a book that included the alphabet and bible messages to the students which became the most widely-used book for school in New England. “The New England Primer, first published in the late 1680s, was a widely used 88-page reader that began with basic letters and worked up to passages from the King James Bible, the Westminster Shorter Catechism, and other Puritan texts." (Gaither, M. 2011) -
American education and the courts
The first publicly supported library in the U.S. is established in Charles Town, South Carolina. -
American Education and the World
The first monitorial School System was created by Andrew Bell and Josephy Lancaster who were British educators. The intention was for students to meet in one room where facilities could possibly limited on resources. This was not a popular movement. -
American Education and Funding
Horace Mann, a visionary educator, Secretary of State of Massachusetts, and advovate for public free schools. He fought for an increase in funding for schools and better training for teachers. He also became the editor the Common School Journal. -
Amrerican Education and Funding
Lexington, Massachusetts: "Normal Schools": the first stated funded school which was specifically for teacher education was opened. Still opened today and is the Framingham State University. The purpose of these schools was to teach future teachers the teaching standards or also known as “the norm.” The benefit to these schools was they were to be tax funded institutions. -
American Education and Technology
The Dewey Decimal System, which was created by Melvil Dewey in 1873, was published and patented. This is still used world-wide as the most widely-used library classification system. “This system is a numerical scheme for the arrangement of subjects of nonfiction books, and it classifies books by dividing them into 10 main subject groups that are called categories." (http://mypages.iit.edu/~smart/halsey/lesson1.htm) -
American Education and Minorities
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas overruled the past was the major advantage to minorities and declared that public schools could no longer segregate students based on their race. This would be unconstitutional and would deprive children of their equal educational rights and opportunities. -
American Education and the World
The National Defense Education Act was one of the first times when the American government had realized the American Math and Science education program was behind other countries. When The Soviet launched their satellite, “Sputnik,” the American Government decided to provide educational funding to all American schools on all levels. The act allowed funding each year in increasing increments for a total of four years. -
American Education and Minorities
The law that prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, or origin, included that of women as well was called The Civil Rights Act. This was a large step for equal rights which banned schools from segregation as well as creating the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). -
American Education and Students with Special Needs
The Rehabilitation Act became a law in this year, which included a section called “Section 504. This would guarantee civil rights for people with disabilities including federal funding for institutions and requirements that schools accommodated students by including them in program and activity participation as well as access into buildings. -
American Education and Minorities
When the Equal Educational Opportunities Act was passed; it prohibited discrimination and required schools to overturn the barriers that prevented equal protection and rights for students. While this was also helping protect students who still struggled with racial issues, this also helped and is important still today by protecting the rights of students who are English Language Learners. -
American Education and Students with Special Needs
The Education of All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142) becomes federal law. This law required that a student’s individual needs were met with a free and appropriate public education which offered the least restrictive setting for all children with handicaps. The states were given a deadline until 1978 and then extended it to 1981 to fully comply with the law. -
American Education and Technology
The University of Phoenix establishes their "online campus," It was “in 1976, Dr. John Sperling, a Cambridge-educated economist and professor-turned-entrepreneur, saw an opportunity—and seized it—to cater to working adults seeking higher education by offering convenient class times at local sites.” (http://www.phoenix.edu/about_us/about_university_of_phoenix/history.htm) University of Phoenix was the first online institute to offer bachelors and master’s -
American Education and Curriculum
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics had been founded in 1920. In 1989 they published the information called Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics. This was to insure that reformed mathematics education was about studying concepts rather than specific equations and algorithms. -
American Education and Minorities
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 was the first comprehensive reform since 1965. This act increased annual immigration which added diversity to the schools across America. Some of the specific points to the law was that it provided family sponsored visas as well as employment based visas for skilled workers. -
American Education and Technology
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technologies Act was a federal mandated funding act which required funding for schools at all levels which helped towards preparing students for technologically oriented careers in the workplace. -
American Education and the Courts
The controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is approved by Congress in 2001 and was signed into a law by President George W. Bush on this date. No Child Left Behind Act was to reevaluate the ESEA of 1965 as well as replace the Bilingual Education Act of 1968 by mandating student testing and holding schools accountable for student achievement levels. The schools would receive penalties for inadequate yearly progress. -
American Education and Students with Special Needs
The H.R. 1350, Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act, aka IDEA 2004, was the modification from the previous IDEA of 2001. These changes included the IEP, (Individual Education Plan) process with safeguarded protocol and increased authority for school workers when in special education placement decisions.
