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Colonial Period
The schools reflected the settlers' values and beliefs.This is when the roots of the American education system were established. There were 3 different types of colonies depending on where you lived. They were the Southern colonies, Middle colonies, and the New England colonies. These schools focused a lot on religion.
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Grammar Schools
The Boston Latin Grammar Schools were established in 1635. This was the first American High School but it only served the colonial elite. This was a college-preparatory school designed to help boys prepare for the ministry or a career in law. If you were female, you didn’t attend, because you could be neither a minister nor a lawyer.
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Old Deluder Satan Act
This act is enormously significant historically, because it gave birth to the idea that public education could contribute to the greater good of our country. It provided the legal foundation for public support of education, which is a cornerstone of schooling in our country.
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Franklin's Academy
Free of religious orientation the academy was a school that focused on the needs of colonial America. Math, navigation, astronomy, bookkeeping, logic, and rhetoric were taught both boys and girls attended. Students selected courses from this which created the precedent for electives and alternative programs at the secondary level that exist today.
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Signing of treaties with Native Americans
Federal government signed 400+ treaties with Native Americans to provide assistance for agriculture, medical care, and education. This lasted till 1870.
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The Early National Period
The Constitution removes formal religion from the schools and establishes state responsibility in education. The U.S. Constitution, was written in 1787 and adopted in 1789, it played a major role in shaping the educational system.
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Land Ordinance
Land Ordinance was designed to raise money by selling land in the territories west of the original colonies acquired from Britain at the end of the Revolutionary War. The ordinance divided land into townships consisting of thirty-six one-square-mile sections, with the income from one section reserved for support of public education.
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The Common School Movement: the rise of State Support for Public education
Free public schooling becomes accessible to most students. People often refer to this time as "The Age of the Common Man". Schools started being organized into grade levels. Teachers were given a designated grade level or content area to teach.
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English Classical School
Boston established the first English classical school, a free secondary school designed to meet the needs of boys not planning to attend college. It offered the subjects of English, math, history, science, geography, bookkeeping, and surveying, and to reflect its practical emphasis, the name was changed to the English High School in 1824.
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Quill pens
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Who is attending school
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First national compulsory school attendance law
Under Mann’s influence, Massachusetts became the leader of education in the United States. It doubled state appropriations for education, built fifty new secondary schools, increased teacher salaries by 50 percent, and passed the nation’s first compulsory school attendance law in 1852.
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State Board of Education
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Who was enrolled in school
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Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington established the Tuskegee Institute. This was one of the first colleges for African Americans.
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Committee of 10
The American high school in the late 1800s was an institution in search of an identity. Educational leaders recognized the problem, so in 1892 and the National Education Association appointed a group called The Committee of Ten to examine the high school curriculum and make recommendations about standards, programs, and methods.
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Boarding Schools
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Segregated Schools
San Francisco established segregated schools for Asian Americans.
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First Junior High
First junior high school for 7th, 8th, and 9th grades opens in Columbus, Ohio. These schools provided a unique academic curriculum for early adolescents.
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Projectors and filmstrips
This allowed teachers to show still photographs in class. The teacher turned on a film projector that showed the first image of the filmstrip. The teacher might then turn on a record or cassette tape. At the appropriate point, a tone signaled the teacher to turn a knob, advancing the presentation to the next frame.
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Overhead Projector
They require information to be placed on transparent plastic for projection, a primary disadvantage. This is why we have started using smart boards vs using overhead projectors.
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The Modern Era
The modern era in education began after World War II and continues to the present. It is characterized by an increased national emphasis on education that people now view as the key to both individual success and the progress of the nation. Schools become instruments of national purpose and social change.
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Programmed and Computer-Based Instruction
Programmed instruction focused on forming behavioral objectives, breaking instructional content into small units, and rewarding correct responses immediately and frequently. Today’s computer based drill and practice software, common in basic skills areas at the elementary level, is largely grounded in Skinner’s original ideas.
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Educational television
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Brown vs. the Board of Education Topeka
This supreme court case fought that separate but equal was not equal at all for education.
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The National Defense Education Act
This act was designed to enhance "the security of the nation" by improving instruction in math, science, and foreign languages.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act prohibited discrimination against students on the basis of race, color, or national origin in all institutions receiving federal funds.
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Head Start Program
Head start programs come out from the war on poverty, This program allows for 3 to 5 year old a change to be ready for school. They wanted to stimulate the academic achievement and development of low-income preschoolers and educate and involve parents in the education of their children.
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Handheld calculators
Introduced by Texas Instruments, these large and initially bulky tools paved the way for the calculators used in today’s classrooms.
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Lau vs. Nichols
This federal court case in California said that the school system in San Francisco violated the rights of Chinese American students.
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
This act allowed and required for free and appropriate public education for all students, including those with exceptionalism.
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Department of Education
The creation of the Department of Education. This happened during the War on Poverty. It was tied in with health and welfare, but education is so important it needed its on position. -
Native American Languages Act
Native American Languages Act protects the languages and cultures of Native Americans.
