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In the early 1600's Puritan families were concerned with the thoughts that ... The Grammar school's distinct purpose was as a specialist in preparing boys for real world
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John Locke FRS was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism
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English Puritans founded the colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1630 upon the belief that they could create a model commonwealth in the New World based on the Christian principles of faith in God and obedience to His will.
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Children were born evil and some thought if they learned how to read they would not be sons of satan anymore.
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Christian Wolff was a German philosopher. The mountain Mons Wolff on the Moon is named in his honor. Wolff was the most eminent German philosopher between Leibniz and Kant.
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As America grew in size it also grew in prosperity. Wealthy families could soon afford to allow wives and daughters more free time, which they often filled with activities such as music, reading, and education.
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Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.
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Noah Webster, Jr., was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education
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Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel or Froebel was a German pedagogue, a student of Pestalozzi who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities
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Inventing Kindergarten. Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel was born on April 21, 1782, in Oberweissbach, a town in the small principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in central Germany
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The New England Primer became the the most sucessful educational textbook published in the 18th century
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Congress quickly adopted 12 such amendments; by December 1791, enough states had ratified 10 amendments to make them part of the Constitution. Collectively, they are known as the Bill of Rights
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William Holmes McGuffey was a college president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of textbooks
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Catharine Esther Beecher was an American educator known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education
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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States.
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Elizabeth Blackwell was a British-born physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register.
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The English High School of Boston, Massachusetts is one of the first public high schools in America, founded in 1821
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This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known.
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Her insight helped assure her success. Opening the Doors. When its doors finally opened on November 8, 1837, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary embodied two major innovations in women's education.
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New York State Asylum for Idiots. aka State Idiot Asylum, Syracuse Developmental Center.
Syracuse, New York. Authorized in 1851, the New York State Asylum for Idiots received its first "pupils" in 1883 -
As former president Dr. Horace Mann Bond noted in his book Education for Freedom: A History of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, with the college's founding in 1854, "This was the first institution founded anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for youth of African descent."
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Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community.
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Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet-Simon scale.
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Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American politician and educational reformer.
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John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform
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When the American Civil War (1861-65) began, President Abraham Lincoln carefully framed the conflict as concerning the preservation of the Union rather than the abolition of slavery.
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Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865
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Since 1867, Howard has awarded more than100,000 degrees in the professions, arts, sciences and humanities
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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy.
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The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918.
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During most of the twentieth century, the term "progressive education" has been used to describe ideas and practices that aim to make schools more effective agencies of a democratic society.
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This 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law.
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Jean Piaget was a clinical psychologist known for his pioneering work in child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology"
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Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist, the founder of a theory of human cultural and bio-social development commonly referred to as cultural-historical psychology, and leader of the Vygotsky Circle
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History. America's first public community college began in 1901 as an experimental postgraduate high school program
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Benjamin Samuel Bloom was an American educational psychologist who made contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery-learning
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Madeline Cheek Hunter was an American educator who developed a model for teaching and learning that was widely adopted by schools during the last quarter of the 20th century.
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The Smith-Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917 was an act of the United States Congress that promoted vocational agriculture to train people "who have entered upon or who are preparing to enter upon the work of the farm," and provided federal funds for this purpose
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Established in 1929 the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) is a research and policy organisation in South Africa
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Herbert R. Kohl is an educator best known for his advocacy of progressive alternative education and as the author of more than thirty books on education.
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Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944, this act, also known as the GI Bill, provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing
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It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day. The program was established under the National School Lunch Act, signed by President Harry Truman in 1946
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Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American activist known for being the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana during the 20th century. She attended William Frantz Elementary School
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National Defense Education Act (NDEA), U.S. federal legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 2, 1958, that provided funding to improve American schools and to promote postsecondary education
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In the 1960's in the United States, some options to traditional public schools sprang up as a protest against racially segregated schools. The history of magnet schools is tied to the 1960's protest over school desegregation and the educational reform model of public school choice as a way to address educational inequity.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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On April 9, 1965 Congress enacted the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) (P.L. 89-10), the most expansive federal education bill ever passed. It is significant to note the bill was enacted less than three months after it was introduced, as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's “War on Poverty.”
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Although this bill was limited to Spanish-speaking students, it led to the introduction of 37 other bills which were merged into a single measure known as Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) or the Bilingual Education Act, which was enacted in 1968
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The 1972 Indian Education Act was the landmark legislation establishing a comprehensive approach to meeting the unique needs of American Indian and Alaska Native students. The unique aspects of the original authority have been retained through subsequent legislative reauthorizing statutes, with the latest revision occurring with the amendments made by the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which reauthorized the program as Title VII Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
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Title IX was passed by the U.S. Congress on June 23, 1972, and signed by President Richard M. Nixon on July 1, 1972. It is a civil rights law prohibiting discrimination in education programs and activities receiving federal funds.
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The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (PL 93-112, September 26, 1973)87 and its subsequent amendments are precursors to the more well-known Americans with Disabilities Act that was passed in 1990
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A Texas statute which withholds from local school districts any state funds for the education of children who were not "legally admitted" into the United States, and which authorizes local school districts to deny enrollment to such children, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. - See more at: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/457/202.html#sthash.PZETFRuV.dpuf
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A Dame school was an early form of a private elementary school in English-speaking countries. They were usually taught by women and were often located in the home of the teacher
