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Johann Pestalozzi
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Robert Owens
He started a school for infants in Scotland. Owen believed that a controlled environment, a Utopian environment, helped to make a well-behaved and educated child. This may have impacted early childhood education today by having rules in the classroom for the children and the adults. -
The Garden of Children
The Garden of Children (Kindergarten) was created by Friedrich Frobel. He based his beliefs and education on the fact that children are unique with unique needs. He also created Froebel gifts, which were educational toys made especially for kids. He believed that leaning happens through play. -
Elizabeth Peabody
She was responsible for the first kindergarten in the United States that used the English language. This allowed more children to understand what was being taught and opened the door for more young children to learn and to go to school. -
Maria Montessori
She created the Montessori school system which is being used in over 4,000 early childhood education programs. Montessori paved the way for the importance of children learning about things that they are interested in. She respected children and saw that they must be respected in order to be taught. She also believed that children learn by using their senses and being hands on in their learning techniques. -
First public school kindergarten
It started in St. Louis and Susan Blow fought to bring a public school to her town. Once this happened, the public schools came up everywhere and there were 400 by the time she died in 1916. -
Sputnik
Sputnik went into space, it prompted the United States to offer a better education to its children in the subjects of math, science, technology, and engineering. This brought about the National Defense Education Act that introduced the federal government in setting goals for educating kids in America. This would have an impact on education by helping to have a specific curriculum for certain age groups and what they should be learning. For example: common core. -
Head Start Program
This program is funded by the Economic Opportunities Act. This program helps to educate young children who come from low-income families and provides them and their parents with assistance and education. This impacts education by allowing all young children the opportunity to get a good start in education no matter how much money a family has or where they come from. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Created to help low income families to get educations. It benefits schools in buying new and better materials and updating facilities. It also created school lunch programs to help kids get a meal for the day. -
No Child Left Behind Act
The bill was passed because it was created to sustain the ESEA. It makes it so schools are accountable for their teaching efforts. To be funded, schools have to test and be adequate in their progress.