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Roman education was heavily influenced by Greek education. Boys and girls attended elementary and a secondary or grammar school.
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Renaissance era, the ideal curriculum of the time was based on the seven liberal arts.
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Schools were segregated by race. Claimed to be equal but separate but this was not the truth.
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-Dame: Taught bare minimum to girls and boys, run by widows or housewives from their homes.
-Reading and Writing: For boys only, went beyond what parents or dame school could teach them. Based on the Bible.
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Required each town to determine whether young people could read and write.
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Mandated the establishment and support of schools. Teachers were to be paid and towns of 50 or 100 needed to appoint teachers.
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Rousseau believed that children progressed through stages of growth and development
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Replaced old Latin grammar school, broader and more practical curriculum and focused on the English language instead of Latin.
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A school for girls, grew to 140 students from all over America and Canada
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Anthony Benezet founded one of the best known schools for African Americans
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The purpose was for teachers to instill in students "the first rudiments of the language, some just ideas of religion, morals, and domestic economy."
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Lancaster eventually emigrated to America which caused a rapid spread of monitorial schools in urban areas
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The first state supported high school in the US. Marked the beginning of the long, slow struggle for state-supported common schools
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Opened a university with 40 students a month before his 81st birthday
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"How Gertrude Teaches Her Children" contributed greatly to the development of elementary schools
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Mann accepted the position of secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education. Used his post to improve the quality of schools.
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He felt teachers needed more than a high school education to teach, they should be trained in professional programs.
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Curriculum consisted of general-knowledge courses plus courses in pedagogy and practice teaching
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Became acting head administrator and the first woman to administer a state normal school
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Margarethe Schurz opened the first US kindergarten in her home.
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Provided federal land for states either to sell or rent in order to raise funds for the establishment of colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts. Set a precedent for the federal government to take an active role in shaping higher education in the US
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Susan Blow opened the first successful public kindergarten in the US.
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Called for a high school curriculum designed to accommodate individual differences in scholastic abilities.
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Labored diligently to professionalize the teaching and to increase teachers salaries and benefits
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Intent on social reform to improve the quality of American life. Implemented progressive theory in classrooms that they believed would lead to the improvement of society.
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From the end of the Civil War to the end of World War 1, compulsory education laws were passed in all states.
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48 states participated in developing K-12 standards.