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New York Public School Society
They helped provide an education for the less fortunate. Also during this time schools were ran on the "Lancasterian" model. This model had one teacher teach hundreds of children in one room. -
Connecticut Asylum at Hartford for the Institution of Deaf
It is the first permanent school for the deaf in the U.S. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent are school's co-founders. -
First Tuition-Free Public High School
First tuition-free public high school opened up in Boston and was an all English speaking school with 102 students. -
Standardization to Public School Curriculum.
Horace Mann introduced this to ensure the same high-quality education from any school across the district. This created equal access of high-quality education for all American students.
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The Common School Journal
Horace Mann founded The Common School Journal which explained the problems with public schools. Mann thought that bringing all classes together would help children share common experiences and help the less fortunate advance in society. It wasn't published until 1852.
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Gender of teacher
Up to 1840 nearly all teachers were men. They were hard to come by and usually poorly educated themselves. Those who did have an education or teaching experience often left their careers early on for a better profession, until women took over the profession in the 1840s. Women were much less likely to leave their teaching jobs, as there were few other professional options for them. -
Age Grading
Horace Mann introduced age grading in Massachusetts where students were separated by age in school. Prior to this change, education was taught in one-room school houses. This new method quickly spread across the U.S. -
Child Labor
There was 1,600 laws for child labor in the United States in 1850. These laws regulated working conditions and limited or forbidded child labor. These laws did not apply to immigrant children because they were not thought of as American citizens but as low, poor people who didn't belong. By 1900, 2 million children were working so that their families could survive. -
Compulsory Attendance Laws
These laws were passed to ensure that all eligible children were present for instruction. This law requires students to start attending school at a certain age, along with requiring a certain amount of days needed to attend during each school year. -
Children's Aid Society of New York
This society created the first school lunch program. -
The First Kindergarten
It was started in Watertown, Wisconsin, founded by Margarethe Schurz. -
National Education Association
Physical education in public schools was supported by the NEA. -
Morrill Land-Grant Acts
These acts were signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln and created land-grant colleges. These institutions trained students in technical agriculture and engineering sciences. Iowa State University,Purdue University, and Texas A&M University were just some of the first federal land grant colleges.
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National Education Association
NEA supports music education. -
Board of Education
The Board of Education is created to help states establish effective school systems.
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Average School Days
The school year was about 132 days, it depended on when they needed to help with harvest. School started at 9am and ended between 2-4. There was one hour for lunch and recess. -
Blaine Amendments
Thirty-nine states passed the Blaine Amendments to their state constitutions. These amendments stopped tax money from going to parochial schools. -
Feminization of Education
More girls than boys were graduating from high school.However after graduating, women still had to work at lower wages than males. -
Immigration
In New York and Chicago alone, nearly four-fifths of school-aged children had foreign-born parents. -
Second Morrill Act
It required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else designate a separate land-grant institution for person of color. -
Pledge of Allegiance
The Pledge of Allegiance was first used in public schools on Columbus Day. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The 14th amendment was supposed to enforce absolute equality between races by using the "separate but equal" doctrine in all public places, including schools.
