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Colonial Schools in Jamestown
Schools were formed to teach wealthy white males what they needed to be prepared to convert the Native people to Christianity. -
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Education in the United States
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The Boston Latin Grammar School
America's first high school was created. It was only for the colonies' richest men. It was a college prep school designed to help boys prepare for life in the ministry or life as a lawyer. -
Old Deluder Satan Act
More formally known as the Massachussets Act of 1647. It was to create citizens who knew the Bible well and could thwart Satan's trickery by requiring every town of 50 or more households to hire a reading and writing teacher. This provided the legal foundation for public support of education. -
Academy of Philedelphia
Benjamin Franklin opened this academy free of religious orientation. It was a high school that focused on the needs of the colonies: math, navigation, astronomy, bookkeeping, logic, and rhetoric. This started academies that made important contributions to American education (practical curriculum, removed religion, and supported by public funds) -
Land Ordinance of 1785
The federal government divided up land in the west and sold it. The money from One section of every 36 sections sold was used for public education. This tradition of monetary support still exists today. -
The US Constitution and Education
Written in 1787, adopted in 1789 lead to the way education is today. With the separation of church and state being in the Bill of Rights, schools could no longer put one religion over another. The constitution is also important because it gave states the responsibility of educational decisions not made in the ten amendments. -
Common School Movement
The beginning of A historic attempt occurred to make education available to all children in the United States:
States and local governments directly taxed citizens to support public education.
States created state departments of education.
Educators organized schools by grade level and standardized curriculum.
States improved teacher preparation. -
English Classical School
Boston established the first free high school designed to meet the needs of boys not planning to attend college. -
Attendance Law
Horace Mann was very important in the education movement. When he lead Massachussets to become the nation's leader of education, they passed the first compulsory school attendance law. Mann also supported the idea that public education should be a right of all citizens. -
The Committee of Ten
The National Education Association put together this committee of college professors and administrators. The committee was to examine the high school curriculum and make recommendations about standards, programs, and methods. The committee concluded that students who plan to go to college and those who don't, need the same content and teaching methods. -
Junior High Schools
The first junior high, for grades 7-9 opened in Columbus, Ohio. -
The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
The NEA appointed a second committee, the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education who wrote this report in 1918. The report broadened the high school curriculum to include basic skills such as reading and math together with vocational education, personal health, home economics, civic education, etc. -
Brown vs Board of Education
Supreme Court Case that determined separate is not equal. -
Headstart
This program began with two major goals in mind: to stimulate the academic achievement and development of low-income pre-schoolers and to educate and involve parents in the education of their children. -
Magnet Schools
In the 1970's public schools that provide innovative programs and accept enrollment from students in all parts of the district were developed to integrate white and minority students -
Native American Education
Indian Education Act establishes Office of Indian Education to better the education of Native Americans. This act ensures they are taught their own history and culture, instead of being forced to assimilate to American ways. -
Education Amendments
Federal government makes sure there is gender-equality in all educational programs. "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance." -
Lau vs Nichols
A federal court that ruled the San Francisco school system had violated the rights of Chinese Ameerican students and students who found their educational experience "wholly incomprehensible". Those groups should be taught in their first language if that language was not English. -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Congress passed Public Law 94-142, which required a free and appropriate education for all students, including those with exceptionalities. -
Department of Education
Changed from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, because education needed its own cabinet level position. -
Native American Education
Native American Languages Act protects the languages and cultures of Native Americans -
No Child Left Behind
The standards movement in education lead to NCLB. NCLB was created by the Bush Foundation and was supposed to create better, highly-qualified, teachers.
