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The Massachusetts Law of 1642
This law orderder the Selectmen of each town to determine whether parents and masters of apprentices were providing education for their children. They were also to determine what was being taught to the children. -
The Education Law of 1647
This law ordered every township of 50 households or more to provide a teacher to teach reading and writing, and all townships of 100 households or more had to provide a grammar school. This law and the Massachusetts law of 1642 were considered the first education laws in America. -
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson felt the continuation of democracy depended on educating all Americans. In 1778 he drafted a ruling that would guarantee 3 years of public education for all children and advanced education for a select few, it was defeated 3 times. -
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Age of the Common School Movement
The period from 1830 to 1865 has been designated the age of the common school movement in American educational history. During this period, the American educational system as we know it today began to take form. -
Catherine Beecher
She campaigned for more schools and teachers in the frontier. She organizined societies for training teachers, and establishied plans for supplying the territories with good educators. -
Horace Mann
Horace Mann believed in equalizing schools and promoted a new system called Common Schools. He was able to to get free tax support for education. -
Friedrich Froebel
He felt the the primary aim of the school should be self-development through self-expression, which would take place through games, singing, or any number of creative and spontaneous activities. He developed highly stylized educational materials that were mass produced and used throughout the world -
John Dewey
John Dewey is known as the father of Progressive Education. He believed if schools were anchored in the whole child, then teaching and learning would be different. -
Brown vs. The Board of Education
Most Important: In this landmark United States Supreme Court case, the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." This impacts all civil rights issues in education.
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Little Rock Nine
On September 4, 1957, the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas called in the state National Guard to bar the black students’ entry into the school. Later in the month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the “Little Rock Nine” into the school, and they started their first full day of classes on September 25. -
Sputnik
Few times in history has a single event had such an impact on education as the launching of Sputnik in October 1957.The event seemed to confirm the growing fear that the United States was losing the Cold War technological and military races with the Soviet Union because of a shortage of trained teachers, engineers, and students. -
NDEA
Most Important: The National Defence Education Act (NDEA) provided funds to state educational agencies for the purposes of improving the teaching of science, mathematics, and “modern foreign languages”. The NDEA sponsored the efforts of academic specialists to revise the curriculum according to the latest theories and methods. We still see the impact of this in our schools today.
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The Civil Rights Act
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Because of this act, schools would lose federal funding if they did not desegregate. Majority of schools complied. This set the stage for gaining rights for others which is still felt today.
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IDEA
Most Important: This act guaranteed a free, appropriate public education for all children with disabilities in the least restricted environment. It has had many ammendments and because of this we see children with disabilities integrated into the main stream classroom.
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A Nation at Risk
Most Important: This report that students stated students were not striving for excellence and the school standards were low the standaridzed test was born. We see it today and our curriculum is based around it. It causes huge anxiety for teachers and students.
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No Child Left Behind
The major focus of No Child Left Behind is to close student achievement gaps by providing all children with a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education.
