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The first English settlement in North America was at Jamestown Virginia in 1607. English were generally educated and had a strong value for education.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law that laid the foundation for a mandatory education. All parents or masters were responsible for teaching their children how to read and write. Today parents are still responsible for educating their children.
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The Act stated that any town with 50 or more families must hire someone within the town to teach reading and writing to the town children. Today we still send our children to a school funded by the adults.
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Noah webster realized the American education needed to be updated. He wrote a book that taught children to read, spell and pronounce words. Today we still use a form of his book.
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First Monitorial school in the U.S was opened in NYC in 1806. It provided an inepensive system for educating poor children, but also was supposed to instill the virtures of orderliness, obedience, and industriousness.
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The American educational system as we know it today began to take form. Instead of sporadic state legislation and abdication of responsibility, state systems of education were established.
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The first American comprehensive and coeducation high school was opened in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts created the nation's first board of education with Mann as its secretary. Mann was a leader and educator for teachers who would listen.
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In an effort to standardize the curriculum, the National Education Association established the Committee of Ten. It was and still is important so that every child is being taught the same curriculum with the same goals in mind.
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William Wirt developed the Gary Plan, which is known as "platoon system," and "work-study-play" plan. It was orgainziged and had curriculum components that provided school subjects to occupations and everyday life.
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The Columbus Board of Education approved the creation of junior high schools in Columbus, Ohio. It was a school that utilized innovative approaches in the classroom.
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John Dewey rejected the old, rigid, subject-centered curriculum in favor of the child-centered curriculum. His classic book Democracy and Education provided his educational theories and rationale for all future educators.
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Terman's revisions of the Binet test utilized the largest standardized sample and by the 1920s became the most widely used individually administered intelligence scale.
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U.S Supreme Court ruled that segregated educational facilities have no place in public education.
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The federal government provided funding for mathematics, science and modern foreign languages.
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Enacted by Congress the ensure that children with disabilities have the opportunity to receive a free public education just like other children.
