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Roots of American education Jamestown
The roots of American educational systems were esablished, Jamestown colony the first permanent English settlement. Religion intergration in schools because of Protestantism in the New World for both spiritual and political reasons. -
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Colonial Period
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Boston Latin Grammar School
It was an early college preparatory school for boys to prepare for ministry or law. -
Massachusetts Act of 1647
(Old Deluder Satan Act) A landmark piece of legislation the made every town with 50 or more people to hire a teacher. -
Benjamin Franklin's Academy
Benjamin Franklin opened the academy Philadelphia in 1751. The academy eliminated religion, and focused on practical needs: math, science, navigation, astronomy,bookkeeping, logic, and rhetoric. It was open to both boys and girls attended. Which is now called University of Pennsylvania. -
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Land of Ordinance of 1785
Designed to raise money by selling land in the territories west of the original colonies.At the time inour country's history, congress did not have the power to directly tax American citizens. The Land of Ordianance was designed to raise money by selling land in the territories west of the original colonies. I -
U.S. Constitution
Written 1787 and adopted in 1789, played a major role in shaping the educational system. It has 27 amendment and the first 10 that are called Bill of Rights. -
Separation of Church and State
It was the establishment free exercise clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. -
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Common School Movement
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Common School Movement
A historic attempt to make education available to all children in the United States. States and local government ddirectly taxed citizen to support publuc schools, states education created to cooridnate state wide effort, curriculum standards, and teacher preparation. -
English Classical School
Was a free secondary school designed to meet the needs of boys not planning to attend college. Focused on boys not attending college. Studies offered English, math,history, science, geography, bookkeeping, and surveying, -
Influence of Horace Mann
Horace Mann a lawyer turned educator, he was a key figure in the common school movement. Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education from 1837-1848. His idea was that public education, in the form of tax-supported elementary schools, should be a right of all citizens. -
Compulsory attendance law
Massachusetts passedthe nation's first compulsory school attendance law in 1852. -
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Modern Period
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Expansion of Common School Movement
Movement prospered despite obstacles, parents began viewing education as a way to improve their children's lives, national and local leaders saw education as the vehicle for assimilating immigrants and national productivity, and industry and commerce were gorwing and requires education. -
Committee of Ten
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Junior High Schools
Popular in the early and mid 1900s were miniature versions of high schools with emphasis on individual academic subjects -
Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education
Created Cardinal Principles of Education, including applied goals in health and civic education -
Cold War 1950-1960s
The cold war with the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 1960s focused federal educational efforts on math and science. -
Sputnik satellite
America saw the Soviet Union's advancement in education, so American government funded money to mathand scienece programs, to meet higher goals. -
War on Poverty
Federal programs designed to eradicate poverty during 1960s, emphasizing on education as its major thrust. -
Middle Schools
popular from 1970s attempted to address adolecents developmental needs. -
No Child Left Behind Act
A reauthorizationof the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, that mandates state level testing reading and math for grades 3-8 and holds indivdual schools accountable for student achievement in these areas.
