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Northwest Land Ordinance
The first efforts to make school mandatory, the act set aside Section Sixteen in every township for maintenance of public Schools. It promoted Education as something essential to be a good citizen. -
Horace Mann
The "Father of American Education" felt that education could be the great equalizer in our country and that it would make poverty disappear. As Secretary of the Board of Education, Mann presided over the establishment of the first public normal school in the United States at Lexington in 1839. -
Common School
Largely Supported by Horace Mann, would equip every child with moral instruction and "equalize the conditions of men." It stuck to teaching the three R's. Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. -
Committee of Ten
Committee adopted by the National Education Association to establish a standard curriculum. he Committee of Ten recommended eight years of elementary education and four years of secondary education. Courses that are now considered basic like foreign languages, mathematics, science, English and history were included in each curriculum. -
Measurement Movement
Originally created to find children with mental disabilities. It was later used to help discover a students intelligence and used to place them depending on their intelligence. -
John Dewey
John Dewey promoted three progressive ideas toward education. Individualism, readiness, and pragmatism. John Dewey's thoughts are still here today. We strive to teach in the same way he wanted. We continue to focus on a teachers role to guide students, but for them to do it through exploration and experience. We always speak of engaged learning and helping our students learn by being engaged. -
Impact of World War 2
As the numbers of school children grew, the demand for facilities and teachers also increased.Teacher certification requirements were lowered and in some cases almost eliminated. More schools had to built to contain the large numbers of school age children and small school districts joined together with other districts to from larger ones which could better bear the burden of increased capital costs and administration. -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
Caused desegregation in schools, stating that divided schools didn't give all students an equal opportunity to receive an education. -
Sputnik and NDEA
Came about because the USA feared that the USSR education efforts were better than theirs. Provides training of guidance counselors and the implementation of testing programs to identify gifted students. This laid the groundwork for Academically Gifted (AG) and Gifted & Talented (GT) programs and began the trend of using standardized testing in schools to measure competency.Provides additional financial assistance for the purposes of strengthening science, math, and foreign language programs -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
This act funds primary and secondary schools. It is also supposed to provide each child with fair and equal opportunities to achieve an exceptional education. I find this act important because it has led to new acts since Lyndon Johnson passed this act. It also is one of the ways we have to pay for education and may be impacted in the future with current conflicts that are existing in state education systems right now. -
Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act
Required states to provide a free and appropriate public education for children with disabilities. It also required individualized education programs and the least restrictive environment. -
The Standards Movement
The Standards reform movement calls for clear, measurable standards for all school students. A standards-based system measures each student against the concrete standard. Curriculum, assessments, and professional development are aligned to the standards. This is important to us today because we still use it. We base what we teach off of these standards and must learn to incorporate them into our lessons. -
A Nation at Risk Report
A report given by Ronald Reagan. This detailed the failings of the American Education. Later propositions were given to make changes in Content, Standards and Expectations, Time, Teaching, and Leadership and fiscal support. This is really important to us today because in a way it influences our modern system. It helped lead to certain standards that are maintained in education such as how much something will be taught. It also modified the system so that teachers needed better certification. -
School Choice Movement
These are alternative forms of school from those public schools provided by the state. These are like charter schools. Vouchers for each student will be given to whatever school system they attend to. These vouchers give money to that school. Charter schools are also exempt from local and state legislation. I find this to be very important because it counteracts the who point of standards. It allows for these schools to do as they wish and may not keep all school systems equitable. -
No Child Left Behind
Act made it so that each state had to come up with testing systems for every student in certain grades. It had no national standard but made states create their own standards. It was also supposed to increase accountability of school staff and teacehrs.