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Education in the Colonial Period : MOST IMPORTANT!
colonial period
Only the larger towns were required by law to build schools, anywhere else were not required or free.
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Northwast Land Ordinance : MOST IMPORTANT!!
northwest
This set the stage for a community-based and organized Westward expansion.
They were wanting to move westward, and move out the Native people in the states.
"The ordinance established a systematic and ubiquitous process for surveying, planning and selling townships in the western frontier." -wiki -
Jefferson, Rush, and Webster
They all wanted to create a system that would support public schools. They wanted to have a school in every town that had at least 100 families. School should be taught with an American influence without anything from the influences of the English. There was a belief that women should also be educated since they would be the future mothers of educators and scholars. -
Monitorial Schools
One main teacher teaching hundreds of students with some assistant teachers and mentors. Focused only on the basics of reading, writing, and arithemetic. Affordable for the poor students as well as taught virtures of obedience, orderliness, and industriousness. -
Charity Schools
Opened for the children of the poor in urban areas. These schools recieved a lot of public support. Although these schools did not play a huge role in the education system, these schools provided the only education that the students would ever get. -
Secondary School Movement
This was put into play as an addition to the elementary schooling. The movement was only for boys at the beginning since they were the ones who were to become the scholars and the workers of the families. There was a push to open one for women, but it was soon after that it was shut down because they did not have the same mindset as the men. This lead to the feeling of wasting the taxpayer's money. -
Common Schools : MOST IMPORTANT!!
common school Giving each student the same chance at life. No distinction of rich or poor. Education is the equalizer between each child. Place where we make Americans. Free of charge, highest quality. -
Horace Mann
First Secretary of Education.
He visited 1000 schools in 6 years.
"Father of the Common School"
Works hard for better trained teachers and increased funding for the public schools. -
Infant School
Taught by women, the students here were of the ages 4-7 years old. These schools were for those children who would most likely be starting to work at a very young age, and this would be the only opportunity for them to recieve any education. By 1850, these schools were known as Kindergarten and were often something that was to be completed before entering the elementary school. -
The Commitee of Ten
This was started in an effort to standardize the curriculum. Chaired by Charles Eliot and mostly was made up of representatives of higher education. The commitee recommended the early teaching of the basic subjects for both terminal and college-bound students. Trained powers of observation, memory, expression, and reason were taught. There was a decision of having the basic subjects taught 4-5 times weekly, for 1 year in order to earn what they called the Carnegie unit. -
John Dewey
He established his own Laboratory school at the university of Chicago. Provided the intellecual foundation for progressive education. He rejected the Subject-centered curriculum for the Child-centered curriculum where the students are learning from experience rather than by memorization. The goal was to promote individual learning and growth. -
Impact of WW2 : MOST IMPORTANT!!
After ww2
A majority of the teachers were sent out to battle. Many of the students chose not to go to school or work. High school enrollment went down a lot and the financial aide that was previously available was now no longer available because of the Depression and the war debt. Colleges and universities were used for training men after the war for learning about the war industries and prepare the men for specialized training areas in war. -
After WW2
G.I. Bill of Rights gives thousands of working class men a scholarship to college for the first time ever. -
Brown vs. School of Education : MOST IMPORTANT!
brown vs board of education
There is a unanimous vote amongst the supreme court stating that the segregated schools are "inherently unequal." There was a feeling that this needed to be abolished as soon as possible because everyone felt like they should have an equal change at getting an education. This is where the black and white children were to share a school and everything in it. -
The Measurement Movement
French psychologistsAlfred Binet andTheodore Simon were the "founders" of what we know today as the IQ Test (Intellegence Quotient).WWI was a very big influence with this movement because they were able to use this to test the recruitments and really see where they stood with their intelligences. After less than 10 years after the completion of the war, the Measurement Movement was put into the American education permanently. -
No Child Left Behind
This is an Act that is allowing all students to gain the same educational experience as their peers.
There is an increase in accountability for the schools and teachers. This also allows your students the choice of school whether it be for moving ahead, or going somewhere where they can work longer on skills that they may struggle with.
