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Colonial Times
Puritans believed important that everyone reads the bible. -
Latin Grammer Schooling
The earilest secondary institution. in the colonial period all secondary education served the sole purpose of training for entrance of college. latin grammer school means "college preparatory school." -
Massachusetts Law
Law passed, requiring parents to educate children -
Old Deluder Satan Act
Keeping Satan Awayevery town with fifty or more families were obligated to pay a man to teach them proper literature. -
Secondary Education for Females
In the 1700'S private venture schools were more flexible than the latin grammer scools and as a result, were the first secondary institutions to accept female students. -
English Grammer Schooling
The growth of middle-class business in the 1700's led to the demand for a secondary education that would provide practical instruction in everything from navigation and engineering to bookkeeping and foreign languages. English grammer schools catered to the growing number of students who needed more than elementary instruction but were not interested in preparing for college. -
Reverend Cotton Mather starts school for slaves
In New England, as early as 1717, the Reverend Cotton Mather started an evening school for slaves. -
Anthony Benezet starts slave school
In the North, schools were established for free African American. Anthony Benezent, a french-born Quaker started a school for slaves and free African American children in Philadelphia. -
Benjamin Franklin starts another school
Benjamin Franklin, as president of the abolitionist society, in 1774. -
Northwest Ordinances
Even though the constitution had regelated control of education to the states, the impetus for such public schooling came from the federal government, in particular as a result of the enactment of the Northwest Ordinance. every township was divided into thirty-six sections of which was set aside for the maintenance of public schools. -
African free school
In 1787, an African Free school was established in Ne York City with an enrollment of forty students, which grew to over five hundred by 1820. -
establishment of femal academies
The real surge of development in education for girls and young women came in the first half of the 1800s with the growth of academies and seminaries that were establish especially for young women. Emma Willard established female academies in Troy, New York (1821) -
Victory of the Common School
The establishment of common schools made steady progress around the country between 1820 and 1920. -
public high school
In 1821, Bostoncreated the first public English high school; a second one, for girls, was established in1826. the number public states increased slowly but steadilyas an extension of the common school system. -
Prudence Crandall takes in African American Girls
In 1833 Prudence Crandall, a white schoolmistress in Canterbury, Connecticut, began to take in African American girls. The villagers boycotted the school, threw manure into its well, and tried to burn it down. Finally a mob broke the windows and the school was closed. -
European Influences
from Europe came ne ideas about education. One of the most far-reaching experiments was the kindergarten. a place where children learned activities, songs and stories. -
irish and italian imigration increase
ImmigrationIrish annd Italian immigration increased the support of Ctholic institutions in the North and East. The Catholic schools gradually increased but many of them closed. -
Growth of Academies
the number of private academieds grew rapidly after the American Revolution in response to the groing need for practical business training. -
Morrill Act
The U.S. Congress passed Morrill Act. This legislation granted each state a minimum of 30,000 acres of federal land ith the proviso that the income from the lan with be used for college for studying agriculture and mechanical arts. -
Kalamazoo Case
Michigan courts ruled that the school district could tax the public to support high schools as well as elementary schools. -
Booker T. Washington starts African American School
Booker was called to strart an African American normal school in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1881. origionally it was named for colored teachers, but later changed to the Tuskegee Institute. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The supreme court upheld the consttituionality of 'seperate but equal" accomodations for African Americans. origionally was only intended for railroad seatings no led into schools. -
growth of junior high
In both Columbus and Berkely a seperate program was established for the intermediate grades. this includes grades seven, eight, and nine. -
Consolidation
In 1910, more than half the states allowed such unification. the groth of school enrollments, especially outside cities wouldnt have become possible without the consolidation of smaller school districts into larger, unified systems. -
The Progressive Education Association
In 1919, the establishment of the Progressive Education Association was a formalized attempt to reform education according to 7 princibles. -
Oregon Law
Required all children to attend public school, a Roman Catholic school and another private school successfully challenged the law on the grounds that their fourteenth Amendment rights were being threatened. -
New Cirriculum Projects
With the stimulus of the soviet launching of the space sattellite, Sputnik, a number of national cirriculum projects were developed and implemented in the elementary schools, particulary in mathematics, science, and socail studies. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Brown vs Brown Civil rightsThe supreme court ruled thatt seperate educational facilities are inherently unequal and that laws requiring white and nonwhite
students go to different schools were illegal. -
Education of the gifted and disadvantaged
During the period of the Sputnik launching two types of students received major attention from elementary school educators; the gifted and the disadvantaged. the gifted because of our nation's concern over the cold ar with the soviet union.
