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The Colonial Period
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The History of American Education
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The Massachusetts Act of 1642
month/date unknown. as cited in the textbook, the Puritans pushed to make education a state responsibility, the Mssachusetts General Court passed into law a requirement for each town to decide if children could read and write, punishment included: fines and possible loss of custody of the child or children -
Reading Lessons: the New England Primer
The New England Primer helped children to master the letters of the alphabet. The medium used- illustative woodcuts and rhymed couplets ( cited in textbook) exact month and and date unknown. -
Benjamin Franklin's Academy
Benjamin Franklin constructed and marketed the Philadelphia Academy, private sedcondary school, focused on the English language, anyone who could afford tuition could attend -church affiliation is not a requirement -
Sarah Pierce's Female Academy
Litchfield Female Academy , Litchfield, Connecticut- enrolled up to 140 female students from almost every state, also, Canada -
Noah Webster's Speller
first entitled A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, his book embraced patriotic and moralistic virtues -
Reverend W. McGuffey''s Readers
had a profound impact on what children learned, estimated 122 million copies of the six-volume series were sold after 1836, taught the importance of living right, virtues such as hard work and honesty -
Troy Seminary, Emma Willard, founder
Emma Willard- Educator and Poet, founded Troy Seminary, one of the first women's colleges in the United States -
Horace Mann
Massachusetts senator who became the first Secretary of the State Board of Education -
Justin Morrill's Land-Grant Schools
provided federal land for states to either sell or rent to raise funds for the establishment of colleges of argiculture and mechanical arts -
Committee of Ten
directors of the National Education Associaton allotted $2500 for a Committee of Ten to have 9 conferences focusing on the following subjects: Latin, Greek, English, modern languages, mathematics, physics, history, etc... -
Committee of Fifteen
Cirriculum was to be divided into 5 basic subjects: grammer, literature, arithmetic, geography, and history, this Committee of Fifteen was to examine elementary cirriculum -
John Dewey's Laboratory School
school established for testin progressive principles in the classroom -
The Lanham Act
provied funding for training of workers in war plants by U S Office of Education personnel, the construction of schools in areas where military personnel and workers on federal projects resided -
National Defense Education Act of 1958
the U S Office of Education sponsered research in science, mathematics, modern foreign languages, and guidance, many positive outcomes resulted from this Act -
NCLB Wavers
'an attempt to improve schools on a local levels' according to The Huff Post Educational Blog, also aims for 100 percent proficientcy in math and reading by 2014
