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Education in the Colonial Period
Education favored the rich and well off. No women or blacks attended school. -
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Common Schools
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The Impact of Horace Mann
<a href='http://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Mann'
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Horace Mann was key to what is public education today. He took what was a foreign concept and used it to create what we know as public education today. Why he is especially significant to me was because of his belief that education should be free in a democratic society which is still the belief today. -
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Population Growth and Immigration in the 19th century
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The Impact of John Dewey
http://study.com/academy/lesson/john-dewey-on-education-impact-theory.html
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John Dewey is considered the father of progressive education. Because of his background as a philosopher, he was able to analyze education, and se that students learn best by doing. Knowing this is essential and applied to classes all the time with trying to get students more actively involved. -
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Monitorial Schools, Charity Schools, & Infant Schools
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The Measurement Movement
This movement was focuses on finding an objective way to measure student achievement and intelligence regardless of the test taker or the background of the test taker. -
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Civil Rights Movement & The War on Poverty
With former schoolteacher President Johnson in office, equality for all students made a drastic leap. Funding became dependent on complying with new integration laws. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html
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What truly splits the 20th century right in half is this great Supreme Court decision allowing all students to be educated under the same roof regardless of the color of their skin. Although segregation clamed to be “separate by equal” we can all see in hindsight how ignorant that comment really is. Today students are no longer kept out of school because of their differences, and although we are not to common ground, -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
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Individuals with Disabilites in Education Act
https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/your-childs-rights/basics-about-childs-rights/how-idea-protects-you-and-your-child
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Including students with disabilities into the general classroom was the next step after the Brown vs. Board of Education act toward a more diverse classroom. With this act, it not only gave students the right to be educated in a classroom with typical peers, it also gave guaranteed special accommodations to meet the student needs. Today we can use the di -
A Nation at Risk Report
Ronald Regan wrote this as a reponse to a decline in test scores. His plea was for greater student achievement. -
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Growth of Standardized Testing
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The Standards Movement
Influences by Regan's "A Nation at Risk," this movement was designed around raising the bar to increase how well American students were performing by putting standards for teacher to follow. -
No Child Left Behind
http://fairtest.org/what-no-child-left-behind-lawMOST IMPORTANTSimilar to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the goal of this act is for all students to succeed. As part of this act, federal law funds poor students with the hope of a greater improvement in academic progress. Today it impacts us as the recent “Every Child Succeeds” Act, but is under the same importance of making sure each child reaches the standards
