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In the thirteen original colonies, not all settlements were required to build schools, only the large towns. Not all of these schools were public, but more importantly, not all of these schools were free.....
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This proposal attpemted to require at least three years of schooling for all children. Girls got three years to prepare them for marriage and often times boys went onto more schooling; slaves got nothing. Jefferson also proposed sending farmers to college, but many congressmen pu-pued the idea.
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Jefferson started the Universty of Virginia, the first state school.
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Noah Webster created this textbook about America. This later turned out to be the forerunner for Webster's Dictionary.
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Horace visited over one thousand schools, assessed and reported their conditions, and created plans for improving those in need. He was the crusader for public education funded by the government, who thought that education was the equilizer of all men.
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The system was built on equity, supported by taxes and fees.
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Massachusettes
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Massachusettes
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If blacks attempted a school education, they were punished in the South. In the north, however, there were segragated schools.
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This was part of the education war; every religion wanted their own governemtn funded school, but that would be been too costly of a logistical nightmare.
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This petition was attempting to desegragate schools.
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Massachusettes
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Massachusettes
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Not sure on the year, but Sarah Roberts was assigned to Smith School, a black school far from her home. Her father did not like this situation, so he tried to get her into a school closer to their home. Sarah father, on her behalf, sued the city of boston, after which the supreme court of MA rand Justice Shaw uled against Sarah.
Lawyer: Charles Sumner -
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Newly free slaves tired to go to school; there were SO many of them
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$63 million
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Per Pupil Expenditure: $8.29
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$141 million
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Per Pupil Expenditure: $11.10
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Schools were still segragated, but blacks had to make their own system.
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3 million of those are children, needing to go to school
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Cited Shaw, claiming that separate can be equal
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80% of children working in factories said they would rather be working than in school
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He campaigned for an English only curriculum in an attempt to unite the country
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After the war, students in Chicago burned their textbooks written in Deutsch
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In the 1920's Southern Italians were struggling in the American School System, two thirds of them never continued past 8th grade
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Stated that the one size fits all theory of education is outdated, introduced the career tracking system
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Louis used the test to decide who got a desk and who got a trench when it came to war time.
Kids were first tested at age 5, but it was said that interlligence was set at age 10
kid were categorized by their test scores and set up for a career track at a young age -
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The men with the more hazardous jobs were typically the ones with the lower IQ scores or minorities.
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Scholastic Aptitude Test
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School becomes a very social place, educators start to worry about reaching the students with average intelligence.
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The fear of war was so severe that Intellectual thought started to wane around this time and dictated what schools could teach.
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This type of education was for those who were not college bound, but also not good at any particular vocation.
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Cited Sumner from 1840's
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Money was sent to fund public education. Schools could start teaching high level math and science. The US could now stand a chance to comepete in the SPACE RACE!
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More than 85% graduated, and most of those went on to college
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He said that schools were failing, there was a learning crisis, and he wanted to make it a more competitive system.
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It was an open market of schools; If one students leaves School A for School B, School B would try to get better so as to retain more students
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35 states had new requirements
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They had smaller, more personalized schools.
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Milwalkee had the first legislation about vouchers. Students could attend private schools at tax payer expense.
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Not much competition!
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Created a new, high tech system for education.
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Argued that vouchers to Religious Schools would violate the separation of church and state. Turned into a HUGE debate!
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With this change, there were 6,000 students using vouchers, even though three quarters of them were already going to their schools before the vouchers.
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These were commericals geared toward teens in return for funding given to the schools.
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