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Reading
Massachussetts Bay Colony passes the Compulsory Education Law, requiring parents to teach their children to read. The History of American Education: 1600-2000. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2019, from https://isminc.com/pdf/free/administrators-faculty/history_education.pdf -
Massachussetts Bay Colony
Becomes the first to require towns of at least 50 households to hire a teacher to educate the town’s children. Towns of 100 families should build public elementary schools. The History of American Education: 1600-2000. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2019, from https://isminc.com/pdf/free/administrators-faculty/history_education.pdf -
Two-track educational system
Thomas Jefferson with different tracks in his words for "the laboring and the learned." Scholarship would allow a very few of the laboring class to advance, Jefferson says, by "raking a few geniuses from the rubbish." Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US. (2015, October 08). Retrieved from https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us -
Pennsylvania state consti-tution
Calls for free public education for poor families. Wealthy families are expected to pay for their children’s schooling. The History of American Education: 1600-2000. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2019, from https://isminc.com/pdf/free/administrators-faculty/history_education.pdf -
School
First public high school in the U.S., Boston English, opens. Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US. (2015, October 08). Retrieved from https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us -
Boston’s English High School
Opens with 102 students. The school is the first tuition-free public high school to teach no language but English. The History of American Education: 1600-2000. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2019, from https://isminc.com/pdf/free/administrators-faculty/history_education.pdf -
Forbidding Teaching
By this time, most southern states have laws forbidding teaching people in slavery to read. Even so, around 5 percent become literate at great personal risk. Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US. (2015, October 08). Retrieved from https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us -
Ohio
Becomes the firs t state to adopt a bilingual education law, allowing for German-English instruction at parents’ requests. The History of American Education: 1600-2000. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2019, from https://isminc.com/pdf/free/administrators-faculty/history_education.pdf -
Irish immigrants
Over a million Irish immigrants arrive in the United States, driven out of their homes in Ireland by the potato famine. Irish Catholics in New York City struggle for local neighborhood control of schools as a way of preventing their children from being force-fed a Protestant curriculum. Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US. (2015, October 08). Retrieved from https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us -
Native Americans
Congress makes it illegal for Native Americans to be taught in their native languages. Native children as young as four years old are taken from their parents and sent to Bureau of Indian Affairs off-reservation boarding schools, whose goal, as one BIA official put it, is to "kill the Indian to save the man." Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US. (2015, October 08). Retrieved from https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us -
Public Education to the South for the first time.
African Americans mobilize to bring public education to the South for the first time. After the Civil War, and with the legal end of slavery, African Americans in the South make alliances with white Republicans to push for many political changes. Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US. (2015, October 08). Retrieved from https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us -
Books
Technological proponent Thomas Edison stated, "Books will soon be obsolete in the schools. Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye. It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed in ten years." Those Who Can Teach (p. 187) -
The G.I. Bill of Rights
At the end of World War 2, the G.I. Bill of Rights gives thousands of working class men college scholarships for the first time in U.S. history. Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US. (2015, October 08). Retrieved from https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us -
The School of Performing Arts
Is the first public high school to specialize in music, dance, theater, and broadcasting. It is
a division of the Metropolitan Vocational High School in New York. The History of American Education: 1600-2000. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2019, from https://isminc.com/pdf/free/administrators-faculty/history_education.pdf -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
The Supreme Court unanimously agrees that segregated schools are "inherently unequal" and must be abolished. Almost 45 years later in 1998, schools, especially in the north, are as segregated as ever. Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US. (2015, October 08). Retrieved from https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us -
Elementary and Secondary Education School Act
Congress passes the Elementary and Secondary Education School Act, providing aid to secondary and primary schools and helping educate poor children. The History of American Education: 1600-2000. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2019, from https://isminc.com/pdf/free/administrators-faculty/history_education.pdf -
Milliken v. Bradley
A Supreme Court made up of Richard Nixon's appointees rules that schools may not be desegregated across school districts. This effectively legally segregates students of color in inner-city districts from white students in wealthier white suburban districts. Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US. (2015, October 08). Retrieved from https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us -
Handicapped Children Act
Congress approves the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, requiring states to provide free educa- tion for all children with disabilities. The History of American Education: 1600-2000. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2019, from https://isminc.com/pdf/free/administrators-faculty/history_education.pdf -
Microcomputers
Many software products were introduced to drill students on basic skills, and some educational visionaries predicted the end of classroom instruction and the end of the teaching profession as we know it. Those Who Can Teacher (p. 187) -
The U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-to-4 that public school teachers may not teach in parochial schools. The History of American Education: 1600-2000. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2019, from https://isminc.com/pdf/free/administrators-faculty/history_education.pdf -
The Eddie Eagle Safe Program
Is developed to help parents, teachers, and law enforcement personnel to teach preK-6th graders. The History of American Education: 1600-2000. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2019, from https://isminc.com/pdf/free/administrators-faculty/history_education.pdf -
The Education Act of 1986
The Education Act of 1986 is expanded to mandate biologi- cal education about HIV, AIDS, and sex- ually transmitted diseases in public schools. The History of American Education: 1600-2000. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2019, from https://isminc.com/pdf/free/administrators-faculty/history_education.pdf -
Proposition 187
Proposition 187 passes in California, making it illegal for children of undocumented immigrants to attend public school. Federal courts hold Proposition 187 unconstitutional, but anti-immigrant feeling spreads across the country. Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US. (2015, October 08). Retrieved from https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us -
Productivity Tools
You use a cloud server to save your photos, social media sites to communicate, and you may use a mobile app to give you driving directions when going somewhere new. -
Cognitive Tools
When they are used to engage and enhance thinking. Those Who Can Teach (p. 191) -
Blogs
The GLOVE program supports a project that uses data on acid rain and waste disposal collected and submitted by students around the world. -
Drill-and-Practice
programs were the earliest form of educational software or educational games. First used as interactive worksheets, the software provided feedback to users. Those Who Can Teach (p. 197) -
Ubiquitous Computing
Which each student has access to some type of mobile computing device to use inside the classroom, in the field and at home. Students can access rich data sets, perform calculations, and test their hypothesis themselves Those Who Can Teach (p. 199) -
Spreadsheets
Having collected data, students will need to organize and analyze the information. Such as Excel and Google spreadsheets, are widely used tools for organizing data sets, conducting numerical analyses, and creating graphs. -
Tutorials
Are educational software applications designed to provide the initial instruction on a given topic. They are used in most disciplines. Unlike drill-and-practice exercises, tutorials present the skill or concept, check for understanding throughout the process, and evaluate the learner's grasp of the topic once the program is complete Those Who Can Teach (p. 203) -
Virtual Field Trips
Provide a wealth of opportunities to extend learning. Not limited to social studies virtual field trips can be used to provide information about a site that students are unable to visit. Those Who Can Teach (p. 202) -
Virtual Schools
Or online schools, are a fast-growing alternative for schools that are trying to overcome such constraints. Those Who Can Teach (p.205) -
Learning through the Home Language
As teachers are supporting their English language learners, they also need to follow the standard curriculum teaching math, science, and other subjects. this can be very difficult as the students are trying to decipher the language while perhaps learning a new mathematical formula. Those Who Can Teach (p. 205) -
Calculators and Graphing Calculators
Schools are trying to heed the message inherent in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' statement that "Electronic technologies --calculators and computers-- are essential tools for teaching , learning, and doing mathematics. Those Who Can Teach (p. 204) -
Wikis
Websites developed collaboratively by a community of users and blogs may evolve into cooperative rather than competitive social structures, and student assessment should shift away from just pencil-and-paper testing and toward the evaluation of products and progress in meeting established criteria under such models. Those Who Can Teach (p. 209) -
Laptops and Handheld Computing Devices
Wireless laptop carts (carts of laptops that can connect to the internet wirelessly and can be rolled into a classroom) provided a good solution to the issue of computer access in the classroom. Those Who Can Teach (p.212) -
Single-Computer Classroom
In a slightly more infused arrangement, the single-computer classroom might have the computer that is kept on the teacher's desk or rolled into the room on a mobile cart. Until classrooms reach a 1:1 student-computing device ratio, teachers will need to find instructional uses for one or just a handful of computers. Those Who Can Teach (p. 212) -
Digital Storytelling
A project that can engage even the most reticent students. In digital storytelling, students create images, often by taking digital photos, and the pair these images with narratives they write and record in their own voices.
