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Education in the Colonial Period
MOST IMPORTANT: This is where education began. Education was not required, people pooled knowledge and taught each other. School was linked to the Protestant Church.
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Common Schools
A common school was in other words a public school, all children started going to school -
Horace Mann
MOST IMPORTANT: Horace realized that the government needed to start taking charge of schooling, he was the first Secretary on the Board of Education, people call him the "Father of American Education".
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Fredrick Douglass
He wanted to integrate schools to get blacks a good education. He also wanted them to be able to go to which ever school was closest to them, not to have to walk much further because schools were not integrated. -
Sarah Roberts and Integration
Father enrolled her into a white school, she got denied, in 1849 it reached the courts, by 1855 integration was granted -
Progressive Reform Movement
changing education practice by banning child labor and requiring children to be in school. many movements were put into place -
Population and Immigration Growth after the Civil War
4 million in growth, including blacks, between 1790 and 1890 immigration increased by 52 million -
The Gary Plan
WORK, STUDY, PLAY was the importance of this plan. Took place in Gary, Indiana. People thought it was only to help people get jobs, but it was all about individual instruction. Kids would find something of interest and do it. There were lots of opportunities in the classroom. -
Secondary School Movement
The movement to add higher level schools. Acquiring schools for "life" not "college" -
Impact of World War II
1/3 of the teachers had to leave work to go and serve their country, enrollment dropped because children wanted to work instead of go to school, financial support for the schools dropped as most of the governments money was going to the war. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
MOST IMPORTANT: Supreme Court decided that segregated schools were unconstitutional, this advanced rights of women, ethnical groups, and race.
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Impact of the War on Poverty
Poverty rates were extremely high so Lyndon B.Johnson wanted to cure AND prevent that. He created medicare and Medicaid, Social Security for retired people, and food stamps. -
IDEA
MOST IMPORTANT: The Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act or IDEA required schools to serve educational needs of eligible students with disabilities. BUT the student had to be evaluated first to see which type of special needs they would need.
https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/your-childs-rights/basics-about-childs-rights/how-idea-protects-you-and-your-child -
Nation at Risk Report
Given by Ronald Reagan, gave a bunch of necessary steps to help our education become more rigorous and set us to much more measurable standards. -
No Child Left Behind
MOST IMPORTANT: Put into place by George W. Bush. All states are required to test students in grades 3-8 and 1 time in High School, to meet proficiency levels. Each state should develop standards for what every child should know and master.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/no-child-left-behind-overview-definition-summary.html
