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Puritans Education
-The settlers included few people with formal learning.
-Family, church, school, university, and community all provided education dedicated to molding persons.
-Valued education as the essential backbone of their society and government.
-The family was the principle means of educating children. -
Post-Revolutionary War Period
-Signaled a turning point in American education
-Religious doctrine was no longer allowed to be promoted
-Secular purposes directed schools -
War of 1812
-Citizens finally had the energy, the self-assurance, the money , and the interest in creating a democratic system of public schools after the War of 1812 ended
-Education was overlooked many times, until people had the time to put effort into education. -
Board of Education
-The first State Board of Education was created.
-Horace Mann was the head of the first State Board of Education
-Massachusetts was the first state -
No Child Left Behind Act
-seeking equity and excellence
-attempt to hold states, districts, and schools accountable for remedying the unequal achievement among different student populations.
-"Proficiency for all" is not logical and/or possible. Each person defines proficiency differently
