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Education in the Colonial Period: Common Schools
(MOSTIMPORTANT)<ahref='http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ss5/b/colonschli.cfm' >The Colonial Period of Education was from 1770-1890 </a>And there were two types of schools, the first was Dame Schools which took place in the kitchens of women in the community and they aught basic reading and writing. Secondary Grammar Schools were for furthering of male students education and these were important because it was where education all started and theres still an emphasis today on reading and writing. -
Education in the Colonial Period
Religious commitment shaped education at first then they tried to start an education system like what was in England. They had private benefactors and soon they abandoned that. -
The Impact of Horace Mann
<a href='http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/horace.html' >The Impact of Horace Mann (MOST IMPORTANT) This man changed history by starting the first common schools and is considered the Father of American Education. If this man didn't emphasize that education should be avaliable to everyone than we wouldn't have as many opportunities as we do today. He opened my eyes to how inconsistent education had been in the past. -
The Impact of Jefferson, Rush, & Webster
-Jefferson pushed so that everyone had to have at least three years formal education. He also help start the University of Virginia.
-Rush was a doctor and professor. He wanted to start a school in Pennsylvania and eventually the nation a free school. He also started the first female school.
-Webster wanted to be different from Britain so wrote the speller rewording and respelling things to not have to use the British la -
Population Growth and Immigration in the 19th century
America started expanding and people started emigrating from other parts of the world besides just England. Working class wanted more free schools. -
Committee of Ten
People wanted a vocational school, but they wanted to standardize everything. They made this program with college prep classes that everyone had to take and then would get a Carnegie unit at the end of the classes. -
Secondary School Movement
In the last quarter of the 19th century states that first established the common school were the first to demand the high school. The school was just for boys, but once they saw the success they wanted to start one for all girls as well. -
The Progressive Reform Movement
There were school age students working in factory instead of being in school so a law was formed making school mandatory in school age children. -
The Impact of John Dewey
(MOST IMPORTANT) John Dewey is the Father of progressive education. He believed that schools should be anchored in teaching for the whole child so not just your regular school subjects. He built schools for all the grades and nowadays schools have all grades and subjects! -
Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954
Brown VS Board of Education(MOST IMPORTANT) On May 17, 1954 it was announced that segregation was no longer in schools and that education is a right available to all because of Linda Brown's case that went all the way to the supreme court. This changed history and today schools no longer have segregation. In fact ethnic diversity is encouraged in most schools today becuase of the Brown vs. Board of Education case. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1965
Equality act is signed by President Johnson which emphasized that states and school districts could lose funding if they didn’t let schools segregate. This act gave 4 billion dollars to disadvantaged kids. -
Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act, 1975
IDEA (MOST IMPORTANT) It used to be 1 out of 5 children of people that were educated with disabilities but not since the act was passed.This act gave children and adults with disabilities the right to be education in the least restrictive environment. Nowadays students of all disabilities are accepted into the classroom and even provided with more resources than you could imagine. -
A Nation at Risk Report, 1983
President Ronald Reagan gave a speech addressing the need to increase quality of education to a higher level. Since the economy changed greatly worldwide and they blamed the schools for the lack of teaching the rising generation. It’s said that 40% of students reported that they took courses in school that didn’t prepare them for real world jobs. -
The Gary Plan
There were art classes or automotive classes because they wanted to reach the students who maybe struggled in the class room but excelled in other areas like art or woodwork. People thought of it as an industrial school so the mayor stopped the Gary Plan and the schools went back to original classroom style. -
School Choice Movement: Charter Schools, Vouchers
Spanish Harlem in NYC was one of the lowest testing schools so they asked some of the best teachers in the district to create small alternative schools within existing buildings. They went from 22 schools to having 52 schools over a ten year period!
