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History of Education

By alyssaburnham

  • Education in the Colonial period

    English Puritans contribute to most of the early education in the newly settled colonies.

  • The Impact of Jefferson

    Jefferson created A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowlege. Ir provided an establishment of a public school system for basic education.

  • Northwest Land Ordinance of 1785

    Settlers can now purchase farmland in the west. Public education is included in expansion.

  • The Impact of Horace Mann

    Horace Mann speaks out about the importance of education for social advancement in society.

  • Monitorial Schools, Charity Schools, & Infant Schools

    Monitorial schools consisted of one teacher instructing hundreds of students through student teachers or monitors. Charity schools were free. Infant schools were for children 4-7 who wouldn't become educated later in life.

  • The Impact of Webster

    Webster wrote the American Dictionary of the English Language as well as the Elementary Spelling Book.
  • Common Schools Movement [MOST IMPORTANT]

    Common Schools Movement [MOST IMPORTANT]

    Colonial parents paid a fee to send youngest students to dame schools, where they learned letters, prayers, and had hornbooks. It's significant grew into a larger movement that brought common schools to larger townships and had teachers educate students on writing, reading, and grammar. Without this movement, we may not have even began to create schools in larger towns.
    Creation of Common School Movement

  • Population Growth and Immigration

    1,220,170 square miles of territory were added to the U.S. Our population grew from 13 million to 32 million. The population was becoming more urbanized and industrialized.

  • Secondary School Movement

    The English Classical School was the first high school in Boston in 1824. It was an all boys school and provided them a "practical education. The high school movement slowly expanded. by 1860 there were only 300 high schools.

  • Committee of Ten

    The National Education Association created the Committee of Ten. The committee chair was Charles Eliot, president of Harvard. It was mostly composed of higher education represnetatives.
  • The Progressive Reform Movement [MOST IMPORTANT]

    The Progressive Reform Movement [MOST IMPORTANT]

    Affected the entire country. It called for curricular and administrative reforms, as well as making schools more sanitary, open to air and sunlight, and conductive to creativity. This is significant and important today, because without it schools wouldn't be responsible for the quality of care for its students.
    Education During the Progressive Era

  • The Measurement Movement

    French psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon developed an instrument based on an intelligence scale that compared individual intelligence to a norm. Thus came the intelligence quotient (IQ).
  • The Impact of WWII [MOST IMPORTANT]

    The Impact of WWII [MOST IMPORTANT]

    Teachers left the classroom to join the forces. Enrollment in school dropped because students had to go to work. By the end of the war, more than one-third of teachers had left teaching. This is significant to education today, because the sharp decline of this period affects where we are today.
    Education after WWII
  • The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement [MOST IMPORTANT]

    The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement [MOST IMPORTANT]

    Prohibiting discrimination against students because of race, color, or national origin in all federally funded institutions. This created desegregation, which was difficult to impose in some areas. This is significant, because without it we could still be in segragated schools, where not all students are treated equally.
    Education and Civil Rights

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    The United States Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools have no place in education. They create feelings of inferiority that affects the student's desire to learn.

  • NDEA

    The National Defense Education Act supported the efforts of academic specialists to revise curriculum to meet the newest theories and methods. It focused on math, science, and foreign language.

  • A Nation at Risk Report

    President Ronald Regan spoke about our educational system becoming a "rising tide of mediocrity." He declared that it would be seen as an act of war if our educational system was imposed on us.

  • The Impact of John Dewey

    John Dewey was the "real spokesman for intellectual America in the Progressive Era." He fought against old curriculum, in favor of new curriculum, where learning came from actual experience as opposed to memorization.

  • The Standards Movement

    Standards become the "go to" for curriculum reform. Creates much controversy over curriculum.

  • School Choice Movement

    Parents opting for private education, either to extend educational opportunities to students who might not have them otherwise, or to challenge already proficient students.
  • No Child Left Behind [MOST IMPORTANT]

    No Child Left Behind [MOST IMPORTANT]

    The No Child Left Behind Act required that by the 2005-2006 school year, all states have set standards for waht every child should know in math and reading. It also required that 95% of all students in grades 3-8 be tested yearly, and at least once in 10-12 grades to track progress. This is significant because without it, we wouldn't have a way of measuring our progression and achievement of goals.
    No Child Left Behind