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Native American and Education
"The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School" is a first person narrative of the early education of Francis La Flesche and for close classmates. -
Joliet Junior College
Joliet Junior College, Joliet, Illinois, opens. It is the first public community college in the U.S. -
Ivan Pavlov
Read his paper, "The Experimental Psychology and Psychopathology of Animals", at the 14th International Medical Congress in Madrid, explaining his concept of the conditioned reflex, an important component of classical conditioning. -
Mary McLeod Bethune
Founded Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute. She was an American educator who founded this private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, which is now Bethune-Cookman University. -
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is founded. It is charted by an act of Congress in 1906, the same year the Foundation encouraged the adoption of a standard system for equating "seat time" (the amount of time spent in a class) to high school credits. Still in use today, this system came to be called the "Carnegie Unit." -
Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet's article "New Methods for the Diagnosis of the Intellectual Level of Subnormals" is published. -
E.B. Huey
E.B. Huey publishes "The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading." -
Ellen Swallow Richards
Chemist, prominent water scientist, and the first women to attend MIT, is instrumental in founding the American Home Economics Association, now the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. -
Indianola Junior High School
In order to improve high school graduation rates, Columbus Ohio School Board authorizes the creation of junior high schools. Indianola Junior High School opens that fall and becomes the first junior high school in the U.S. -
Journal of Educational Psychology
The first issues of the Journal of Educational Psychology is published. -
Edward Lee Thorndike
Thorndike's book, "Educational Psychology: The Psychology of Learning", is published. It describes his theory that human learning involves habit formation, or connections between stimuli and responses. -
Ford English School
Ford English School was created by Henry Ford to teach basic heading, speaking, and comprehension skills. Mostly foreign born factory workers attended. -
John Dewey
John Dewey's "Democracy and Education. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education" is published. -
John B. Watson
John B. Watson and his assistant Rosalie Rayner conduct their experiments using classical conditioning with children. Often referred to as the Little Albert Study, their work showed that children could be conditioned to fear stimuli of which they had previously been unafraid. This study could not be conducted today because of ethical safeguards currently in place. -
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Studies on Reading Behavior and Achievement
William S. Gray and colleagues at University of Chicago publish numerous studies on reading behavior and achievement. -
Gestalt Theory
Max Wertheimer describes the principles of Gestalt Theory to the Kant Society in Berlin. Gestalt Theory, with its emphasis on learning through insight and grasping the whole concept, becomes important later in the 20th Century in the development of cognitive views of learning and teaching. -
First Ed.D. degree in Education
The first Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree was granted by Harvard University in 1921. Henry Holmes, the first dean to train school leaders wanted an emphasis on instruction and administrative. -
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget's "The Child's Conception of the World" is published. His theory of cognitive development becomes an important influence in American developmental psychology and education. -
B.F. Skinner
B.F. Skinner Behaviorism & Cultural transmission theory and philosophy. Skinner built on Thorndike's ideas that teaching could be reduced to highly controllable methods and explored systematic planning strategies fir teaching and learning, teaching as a science, effective instruction, and teaching as a technocrat.
