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Child Study Movement
G. Stanley Hall led the charge to change education to what it is supposed to be about today. His work helped move the focus of education from "what are we teaching" to "who and how are we teaching." -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A loophole found by the Jim Crow south, Plessy v. Ferguson established that schools (and other facilities) could be segregated under the theory that they were equal because all schools were providing an education. This leaves out the fact that no two schools are exactly alike and the resources attributed to both schools greatly impact the ability to learn. -
The Cardinal Principles Report
This report took Hall's idea that not all children learn the same a step further and said that not all students are good at learning the same thing. Expansion of the high school curriculum allowed students to learn to their strengths and better contribute to society. -
Brown v Board of Education
Roughly 60 years after "separate but equal" was upheld in Louisiana it was struck down by the U.S Supreme court. One of the first major victories in the Civil Rights movement was the realization that separate did not equate to equal, and thus schools were integrated in an attempt to provide the same education to all students. -
A Nation at Risk
Facing the reality that the rest of the world was catching up, law makers put in a plan that would increase the standards of schools across the nation. To make this plan work, and probably the brightest spot of the whole idea, administrators realized they needed to bring the bottom end up to increase the total scores. Therefore, steps were implemented to get more help to the lower scoring, lower income students.
