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Dame Schools
Dame schools were the first form of education in America. Dame schools focused on religion and obediance to authority. Children were taught the alphabet and to read so they could read the bible. -
Horne & ABC books
MOST IMPORTANT. These are the first "text books" used in schools. They focused on religion and taught the students the alphabet. This was the beginning of use of books in the classroom. -
Impact of Revolutionary War- Webster
Webster wrote his own book the blue backed speller. The intention of his book was to cahnge the spelling and pronunciation of British words. It was just one more thing to seperate us from Great Britan. -
Common School & Horace Mann
Students were taught the same information and given the same opportunities. School was the place where "we make Americans." -
Impact of Revolutionary War- Jefferson
"Foundations of education created better citizens." Implementation of 3 years of public school for all children. -
Sarah Roberts vs Boston
MOST IMPORTANT. This was the beginning of the fight for integration in schools. Sarah's father tried registering her for 4 white schools that she passed on her way to her black only school. When they would not allow her in they went to court against Boston. -
Progressive Reform
This is when we banned child Labor. Students were placed in schools and school was made a priority for the entire population. "School prepares for a better life." -
John Dewey impact on education
John Dewey is known as the father of progressive education. He taught that schools schould be concerned with the social, emotional, educational, and phsycial well being of a child. -
The Gary Plan
A whole new approach to education was taken in Gary, Indiana. Students received in school everything they didn't in their homes. They were taught hygeine, athletics, home economics, zoology, auto mechanics, etc. They moved between every class and they were kept busy to avoid boredom. I love this educational model! -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
MOST IMPORTANT. This was finally a big step toward integration. This ended the "seperate but equal" statement used by government. It was now illegal to deny an african american student an education in a public school. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty, he added funding for deprived children. This was a huge help to schools who did not have resources and a huge help to students in poverty, it opened the door for them to be able to go to higher education. -
IDEA 1975
MOST IMPORTANT. This opened the door to equality for anyone with a disability. Before this act, those with disabilites, especially intellectual disablities, were placed in homes without an education for their entire lives. This act legally states that all people with disabilites have a right to a free and appropriate education in their least restrictive environment. -
A Nation At Risk
MOST IMPORTANT. President Ronald Raegan became concerned with the quality of education being given in our public schooling system. He felt that students were becoming lazy and complacent in their studies and that they were not adequately preparing to enter the world of citizenship and industry. This lead to standardized testing and future acts in education. -
School Choice Movement
Parents began to fight the inability families had to choose where their students attended school. We are not forced to use our closest grocery store or gas station or anything else, so why were we forced to go to a specific school? Harlem, NY took a big step and began a system of alternative and regular schools. Test scores in the areas soared after just a few years. Schools that were not succeeding were shut down. -
No Child Left Behind
This brought a whole new spin to standardized testing. NCLB required that all of the states take national standardized tests in language arts and math. Students were expected to meet or exceed the state standards by 2014. The teachers whose students did not perform well on these tests were affected through their pay. This act was inpsired by the Elementary & Secondary Education Act of 1965.
