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Education in the Colonial Period
Education started in colonies and was highly based on the religion using scriptures to teach their students to read. The schools at this time had no common standerds and very from town to town as different as the religions in the towns. -
Northwest Land Ordinance,
Trying to consolidate schools and make education mandatory, Congress enacted the Land Ordinance of 1785. This set aside what was known as Section Sixteen in every township in the new Western Territory for the maintenance of public schools. With this was section # 29 staring the separation of church and state. -
Common school
Common school started the free, universal, non-sectarian, and public institution, where people could go to learn.
Staring in the 1830's, common school was found all over America by the end of the civil war. -
Commitee of Ten
The Committee of Ten gave recomendations for standards across American high school curriculum. This group of educators was academic philosophers trying to better the education. -
Common Schools
The commom schools go with the three "Rs". Schools tended to be more religious. -
Bells in the school
After Ford started the assembly line, the schools started using bells in new york. The bell sounded to indicate the change of classes and is still used in schools today. -
The Impact of WW2
World War 2 had a wide spreed inpact on education and child care. As many mothers flooded the work feild to help with the war efforts, education was hit by the war as teaachers left to help the war effort, seting schools back.
Getting the GI bill passed gave solders the opertunity to go to school. -
Brown vs. Board of Education,
Brown A very impotrant event in the history of education is Brown vs. the Board of Education. Coming after many attempes to get coloedr sttudents into closer, better funded "white" schools, it helped with the desegergation of schools, mixing black and white schools together. -
Sputnik and NDEA
sputnik
Sputnik and NDEA were two important events. Sputnik helped with the globle economic syscom. Well the National Defense Education Act provided funding for public schools to increase the tecnology with in the schools. -
The War on Poverty
war on poverty
This is an univishal tital for the poverty leaves in amarica was the War on Poverty. this Importent event happened during the great depretion, helping students with lunches. It included the tittle 1 program and head start. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act,
To help with the "war on poverty" ESEA was to provied equal accses to education to any one, no matter the background of the student. -
A Nation at risk
A nation at riskStandards for a high school diploma adjusted to four courses in English, three in mathematics, three in science, three in social studies, and one-half credit in computer science. Two courses in foreign language were proposed for students planning on attending college. This was done to bring American standards to a world level. -
no child left behind
This act, including Tittle 1, which provieds help for the students with learning or other disabilities, helping them succeed. Though there are many that do not like the act it helps many students. -
IDEA
IDEAThe Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a law enabling accessto service for children with disabilities throughout the nation, governing how intervention is given from states and public agencies, providing special education and related. services to more than 6.5 million students with with disabilities.
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The Measurement Movement (IQ, Thorndike, Terman)
This movement was to measure the students inteligence levels, to better help the students. As so it was an attemped to better understand the brian and why kids of the same age were at different leaves of learning.
