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Education in the colonial period
Our nation's founders were very passionate about education. Many were very articulate and sought knowledge. Children were expected to receive an education, and an example of how much they thought education was important was the fact that they refused slaves from receiving an education due to how important knowledge was to them. -
Common School
Common school education was instituted and was made to be more standardized and methodological in its teachings. -
The Impact of Horace Mann (Most Important)
http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/horace.html Horace Mann was appointed secretary for the board of education of Massachusetts where he started to reform public education. He would travel from school to school and advocated for a wider curriculum, better teaching, public education to all, and should be managed by the public. His legacy still impacts schools today because he was the first reformer of education that made a lasting influence on education and its need to progress and be universal. -
Committee of Ten
Recommended the Standardization of High School Curriculum. There were competing academic philosophies and the committee moved for a standardization across the country. -
The Impact of John Dewey (Most Important)
http://www.biography.com/people/john-dewey-9273497 John Dewey was one of the first to see education or schools as a place of sociality. Where students not only gained knowledge but also learned how to live. To teach students to not just gain skills or knowledge but to help them progress in them for their own good to become someone that could be an attribution to society. His legacy continues to this day with his philosophies of the role of the teacher in the classroom and social apparatuses. -
Secondary School Movement
Between 1910 and 1940 High Schools sprouted all around the country. They were seen as important for youth to enter the job world. -
Brown Vs. Board of Education (Most Important)
http://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/history-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment This was a tremendous moment in the civil rights movement as it got rid of segregation in schools between blacks and whites. This influenced education then and to this day as it acknowledged that we as a people are equal and deserve equal opportunity. To this day there is no segregation in public schools and all can receive and education no matter what race you are. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (most important)
http://www.k12.wa.us/Esea/default.aspx President Johnson instituted this act in 1965 which changed education until this point. This act by government provided funds from the government for elementary and secondary schools. It tried to close the gap as far as succeeding as a student goes between economic classes of students and their own social or economic statuses. -
Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act, 1975 (Most Important)
https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/your-childs-rights/basics-about-childs-rights/how-idea-protects-you-and-your-child So the IDEA was great for our nation because it helped disabled children get into public schools. Our schools introduced disabled students and it turned out that people with disabilities have enormous capabilities.The government to this day has not honored their agreement to pay what they stated they would. -
A Nation at Risk Report
High stakes testing, standardized testing, schools were failing, increase local control, our schools were not succeeding. Increase time of days, school, english, math, science, foreign language. Became a competition to get good grades. After it came out they really wanted schools to be more business driven, more competitive against schools, it is an example of finding one spider in the house and gassing the entire house. -
The Standards Movement
Provides a framework of what students are learning nationwide. Skills that students must acquire. High-stake testing was implemented. Performance based education. -
School Choice Movement: Charter Schools, Vouchers
Provided alternatives for students other than public school education. Causes education expenses to go down, or up depending on the situation. Privatized education. -
Growth of Standardized Testing
Standardized test grow to make education of students measured by tests and success of schools measured by tests. This led to the NCLB of 2001. -
No Child Left Behind
Student success based measurement form. Funding was given to schools that were succeeding. This was based on skill proficiency tests and schools would receive funds accordingly. -
ESSA
Every student succeeds act, we are still trying to determine how its different than the NCLB. Each state gets to submit their own plan of success for students and this gives more power to the state. Though government after seeing state plans can either deny or approve state plans. Funds are given accordingly.
