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Began with Jamestown colony, the first permanet English settlement in North America.
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Prepared boys for ministry and law.
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Living in Georgia, you would not atted school because school didn't exist at the time.
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Diversity families in the middle colonies created paronchial schools, which included the study of religion in addition to the three R's.
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Emilinated religion, focused on practical needs, such as math, science and navigation.
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Federal goverment esablished a role for itself in public education.
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States and local goverment taxed citizens to support schools.
States creadted education dept. and appointed state superintendents of instruction.
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Common School Movenment, a historic attempt to make education available to all children in the United States.
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Focused on needs of boys not attending college
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was a key figure in the common schol movement, Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education from 1837-1848, outspoken advocate for public education, believing that it was the key to deveolping our country. bulid 50 new secondary schools
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Mann, passed the nations first compulaory school attendance law
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50 % american children were enrolled in public schools and 28 of 35 states had establised states board of education.
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Created standards and methods for high schools.
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Created Cardinal Principles of Education, including applied goals in health and civic education.
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Grade levels introduced in elementary schools.