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•Education in the Colonial Period
Parents believed that their children should learn about Christianity so they could read the bible. They taught religion in the schools too. The boys were taught Latin and math and other subjects needed to get into college. Girls weren't allowed to go to grammar school or to college.Not many children went to school, alot were taught from home. -
•The Impact of Jefferson, Rush, & Webster
We praise Jefferson on all his works of trying to get school better educated, not ran by the government, better quality of schools, free for the poor and the rich, 3 years of education for all, and much more. He tried until his death. Nothing every passed. But he was the forerunner of the common school movement. -
MOST IMPORTANT The Impact of Horace Mann
Father of the Common SchoolHorace Mann, had a significant contribution to the Common School Movement. The Common Schools Movement was a movement beginning in the 1830s that involved a push for a tax-funded, well-developed, state public education system. He pushed for chairs with backs, blackboards, textbooks, descent school buildings, etc... Horace Mann 's Common School Movement still impacts today because in thepublic schools we offer free education from K-12. We have professional teacher training. -
The Impact of John Dewey
John Dewey was known as the "Father of Progressive Education." He was an academic, philosopher, educator from the University of Chicago. He made a book "The School and Society" that started being used at schools. He believed if schools were anchored in the whole child, social, intellectual, emotional, physical development, teaching and learning would be different. Schools would be hospitable for the children. -
MOST IMPORTANT Gary Plan- Gary, IN
Gary PlanWilliam Wirt developed the Gary Plan. The school was marvelous! The school had academic classrooms, shops, nature studies-taking care of animals, auditorium, gymnasium, pool, sewing, outdoor facilities, etc. Gary Plan motto was "Work, Study. Play". I think our schools today need to go back to the Gary Plan in some ways. Our school needs to be more hands on learning and about the child initiating the learning. -
John Hylan-Mayor's Race
He won the mayor’s race. He said: "I say to you Mr. Mayor hands off our public schools our boys and girls shouldn't have opportunities to become lawyers, doctors, celery men, men of letter, poets, and musicians notwithstanding the view of education." The immigrants liked him. They didn't want their children to be a plot to turn out the children from cheap labor for large corporations. The day after he won, he canceled the Gary Plan. New York schools became traditional schools. -
•The Impact of WW2
GI bill wasthat men eligibility for educational benefits, which included tuition payments and a stipend for up to four years of college or other training. But way different for whites then blacks. Blacks got the bad end of the deal. Drop out rates amoung teens were very high in the schools. A lot of women, moms, teenagers and even kids had to go work to help with hosse hold expenses. There was a lack of schools. Not enough child care available, more latchkey kids. -
MOST IMPORTANT The Civil Rights Movement
End racial segregationBrown v. Board of Education (1954), now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Brown claimed that Topeka's racial segregation violated the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause because the city's black and white schools were not equal to each other and never could be. Now all races of chidlren can go to school! -
MOST IMPORTANT President Lyndon B. Johnson
MOST IMPORTANT May favorite!Johnson said "Equal change at education, Equal chance at life!" He was one of the best presidents for education and getting so much done with education. Title 1, head start, high stakes testing, disablility act, signed the Civil Rights Act into law, Elementary & Secondary Education Act, raised the standards of public education, etc... These still have a huge impact on us still today! We have high standards for education, all children can go to school and have an equal education, etc. -
MOST IMPORTANT Growth of Standardized Testing
The Past, Present And Future Of High-Stakes Testing Standardized testing is a national, determining a student's academic achievement levels. When teachers or schools are rewarded for better performance on tests, then those rewards encourage teachers to "teach to the test". This is so unacceptable. Teachers can not control all of the students learning. Students need to responsible and parents. The states and government shouldn't put such high pressure on teachers becuase of test scores. There is better ways to see the progress of students. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed by President Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty". Title 1 provision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act passed in 1965, is a program created by the United States Department of Education to distribute funding to schools and school districts with a high percentage of students from low-income families. This is also when we started doing the high stake testing. -
MOST IMPORTANT! Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act, 1975
IDEAI love, in the video, "They are not isolated or hidden they are among us!" This aloud students with intellectual, emotional, deaf, blind or both to come to schools. We all started finding out some had enormous capabilities. Over the years, we have continued to improve the education for students with disabilities, even to include infants and toddlers. I'm grateful for this Act because all my children have disabilities and I couldn't imagine them being isolated and not welcomed at school. -
•School Choice Movement: Charter Schools, Vouchers
Is choice the answerPutting Charter, Public school alternatives (public and private voucher programs and charter schools) to help mostly low income families, giving all different income families a choice of school and to put the shcools in competition that will improve education in America, and fears are that "choice" may backfire by taking resources away from already struggling public schools. -
•No Child Left Behind, 2001
The law is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. States are required to test students in reading and math in grades 3–8 and once in high school. All students are expected to meet or exceed state standards in reading and math by 2014. The major focus of No Child Left Behind is to close student achievement gaps by providing all children with a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education. -
•The Core Standards Movement
The purpose of the common core is value of consistent, real-world learning goals and launched this effort to ensure all students, regardless of where they live, are graduating high school prepared for college, career, and life. To make sure all children are being taught the same standards on the same level. The common core is a great guide for teachers to know where the students should be, what they should be learning, and etc... If done right the common core is a great. But too much tests now
