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The Colonial Period
This period was between the years of 1620-1750. This period mainly focused on Latin Grammar and Religious Teachings. Some examples and schools established will be explained on the timeline, throughout those years. Images:http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/2380467255/ -
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History of Education
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Founding of Boston Public Schools
Had a Latin grammar curriculum for boys 8 to 15. These schools were designed to prepare boys for college and services of God. At that time religion was forced on schools. Images: http://www.xtimeline.com/__UserPic_Large/21507/evt100201150800029.jpg -
Founding of Harvard. First college in United States.
Started as a school for preparing ministers. Emphasized the study of classics. Required students to know Greek and Latin for admittance. Images:http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager2/files/30002494/2010/08/2010-08-16-15-03-25-1-harvard-university-founded-in-1636-is-considered-t.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://education.ezinemark.com/top-10-universities-from-which-us-billionaires-graduated-77365cba4917.html&usg=__iNAeJQGrDFjNhCqEeg0NJ2IH3ro=&h=347&w=480&sz=152&hl=en&s -
Massachusetts required teaching in all towns over 20 people.
Stated required that all kids learned how to read. It was influenced by the Puritan. -
American Academy founded by Ben Franklin.
Founded in 1749, but didn't open until 1751. Some women began to get admitted into schools. Schools started to focus more on academics and less on Latin Grammar. They also started to prepare students for employment. Images: http://totallyhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Pennsylvania-Hospital-by-WilliamStrickland.jpg -
First monitorial school established (NY)
Monitorial school originated in England, and was an attempt to provide mass elementary education for large numbers of students. Images: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/file.php/3775/!via/oucontent/course/78/a207_12_006bi.jpg -
First college for Women established (Troy College).
They started to recognize the fact that women needed to be educated too. Regular colleges hardly ever admitted women. Images: http://museum.unc.edu/static/artifacts/P007_WesleyanFemaleInstitute1854.jpg -
Massachusetts requires compulsory education for all students.
Horace MannHorace Mann got a Phd from Prussia, which had compulsory education since 1821. The Prussian idea was to have a population that was more education, would be better citizens. Images: http://www.educationreport.org/media/images/2005/mer2005-02p10a.jpg -
The Plessy vs. Ferguson
separate but equalThe decision enabled the expansion of separate but equal to pervade many aspects of daily life for people in states throughout the South, where segregation became an institution. Schools, public facilities, restaurants, hotels, theaters, public transportation, etc. adopted the separate but equal policy to segregate African Americans away from Whites and in most cases, make the best facilities inaccessible to us. Images:http://smcbball42.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/homer-plessy.jpg -
Brown v. Board of Education
Separate Is Not EqualIntegration of Schools. Images: http://www.brownat50.org/images/HuntStepsPictLOC.jpg -
Sputnik
The launch of Sputnik shocked the US and led to a major focus on science and science in the school system. Images: http://faculty.etsu.edu/gardnerr/sputnik/sputnik-launch1.jpg -
Civil Rights Act
Specifically aimed at desegregating schools. Images: http://wikihistoria.wikispaces.com/file/view/1153714943_0850.jpg/68138549/1153714943_0850.jpg -
Immigration Reform and Control Act
Affected who moved into the U.S. The cutural and ethnic diversity was also effected. Images: http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-DM976_oj_ril_E_20090419201922.jpg -
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Increased federalization of education included head start, free lunches, special education students. Images: http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/images/ESEA/ms_group.jpg -
Serrano Vs. Priest
Ca Supreme Court declared that property tax based school financing was unconstitutional. Funding now came from the state along with increased regulation. -
Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
FAPE (Free Appropriate Public Education)- Prior to this case Pennsylvania did not have education for the handicapped, physicalor mental. The commonwealth of Pennsylvania issued a Consent Decree stating that education should be provided for all children regardless of any physical or mental handicap. -
Mills v. Board if Education of the District of Columbia
Must provide services regardless of district's ability to pay. Refused to enroll some students and expelled others, solely on the basis of their disabilities. Children with disabilities had an equal right to public education offered in a form that was meaningful to them. -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Stated that all physically challenged students are entitled to a fair and appropriate public education. -
Rowley v. Hendrick Hudson School District
Students have a right to an individual, personal plan-contested IDEA and lost. -
Smith v. Robinson
School must pay for neccessary residential placements. -
Irving Independent School District v. Tatro
Physical and health impairments may not prevent being served in public school. -
Burlington School Committee v. DOE
Distict may have to pay for private placement, even when the parents go against district advice if the placement meets the student's needs and the IEP in the district did not. -
Honing v. DOE
Children with disabilities may not be excluded from school for misbehavior. -
Timothy W. v. Rochester New Hampshire School District
Zero Rejection -
Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District
District may pay for student services if needed even when the student attends a parochial school without violating sepereation of church and state. -
Carter v. Florence County School District 4
If schools do not porvide appropriate services and a private school does, the district may have to pay, even if they did not approve the placement and parents acted unilaterally. -
Doe v. Withers
The defendants, acting under color of the state laws as public teachers, principals, administrators and the Board of Education, deprived the Plaintiff, D.D,, of his statutorily protected civil right to a FAPE as gauranteed by federal and state laws for the education of handicapped children. As a result of these constitutional deprivations, the Plaintiffs were damaged as alleged herein. -
Cedar Rapids Community School District v. Garrett F.
Supreme Court issued a favorable decision on behalf of the child who needed related services to attend school. -
No Child Left Behind Law
A very complex law that is having a huge impact on schools by requiring certain minimal standards be set. And if the school districts do not meet these standards, they may be taken over. -
NCLB Waivers
NCLB WaiversThe Obama administration say they will waive the cornerstone requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, including the 2014 deadline that all students be proficient in math and language arts, and will give states the freedom to set their own student-achievement goals, and design their own interventions for failing schools.
Images: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2011/0923/
