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The first public school in the
American colonies,Boston Latin
School, is open -
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Harvard collage had its beginnings and was founded by the Great and General court of Massachussetts in News Town
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Massachussetts Bay colonies becomes the first require towns of atleast 50 households to hire teachers to educate their children. Towns of 100 households or more would build public elemantary schools
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a evening school was established for working children in New Amsterdamn ( New York City
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School for black students was made in Philadelphia called Quaker
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Pennsylvania state constitution
calls for free public
education for poor families.
Wealthy families are
expected to pay for their
children’s schooling -
The New York Public
School Society is formed by
wealthy businessmen to
provide education for poor
children. Schools are run
on the “Lancasterian”
model, in which one “master”
teaches hundreds of
students in a signel room -
.not until the 1840s did an organized system exist. Education reformers like Horace Mann and Henry Barnard, working in Massachusetts and Connecticut respectively, helped create statewide common-school systems.
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State of Massachusetts passes first its compulsory education law. The goal is to make sure that the children of poor immigrants get "civilized" and learn obedience and restraint, so they make good workers and don't contribute to social upheaval.
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African Americans mobilize to bring public education to the south.African Americans in the South make alliances with white Republicans to push for many political changes, including for the first time rewriting state constitutions to guarantee free public education.
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Congress makes it illegal for Native Americans to be taught in their native languages. Native children as young as four years old are taken from their parents and sent to Bureau of Indian Affairs off-reservation boarding schools, whose goal, as one BIA official put it, is to "kill the Indian to save the man."
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local immigrant communities lose control of their local schools. Makeup of school boards changes from small local businessmen and some wage earners to professionals (like doctors and lawyers), big businessmen and other members of the richest classes.
