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Monitorial Schools, Charity Schools, and Infant Schools
Infant schools were taught by women and designed for children ages 4-7, since they will go to work at a young age and likely not receive any schooling after that. Charity schools were designed for children in poor urban areas. Monitorial schools had one teacher teaching hundreds of people through students teachers or monitors. -
Common Schools
Common schools are the schools that are publicly supported schools attended in common by all children. The Common School Movement is the time when the educational system we know today began to take form. -
Population Growth & Immigration in the 19th Century
From 1830-1860 the population grew from 13 million to 32 million, and 4 million of this growth were immigrants. This caused a concentration of children who needed an education. -
Impact of Horace Mann
MOST IMPORTANT. Horace Mann was a big spokesperson for the common school movement. He led the campaign to establish a state board of education and to organize schools in Massachusetts into a state system. He was a big advocate for public schools, arguing that an education was every child's right and it was the state's responsibility to ensure every child got a proper education. https://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/horace.html -
Committee of Ten
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Impact of John Dewey
MOST IMPORTANT. John Dewey rejected the subject-centered curriculum and was in favor of the child-centered curriculum. He argued that education is most effective when not only the intellectual part of the child is considered, but the emotional, physical, and social needs as well. He believed education was a lifelong process. http://www.creationmoments.com/resources/articles/education/educationtextbooks/evolving-child-john-deweys-impact-modern-education--0 -
The Impact of WWII
After WWII, although progressivism never completely disappeared, it was not very common. -
Brown vs Board of Education
MOST IMPORTANT. Brown v Board of Education is an important event in history that ruled segregation not right in the school system. This wasn't an easy transition and one time fix, but it started the movement for equality. Brown v Board of Education was the beginning of the Civil Rights movement
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Secondary School Movement
This is the time when the funding for secondary schools increased and more secondary schools opened. -
Civil Rights Movement and War on Poverty
MOST IMPORTANT. The Civil Rights Movement was important to education because it didn't allow discrimination of someone based on race, national origin, or color. It allowed the US attorney general to take legal action to achieve school desegregation and provided federal financial assistance to schools that were trying to desegregate.
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Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The ESEA provides more than $1 billion in federal funds to education. 80% of these funds provided assistance to local districts for the education of children from low income families. -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
MOST IMPORTANT. The Individuals with Disabilities Act was an
act that allowed for everyone with a disability to receive a public education. This was a big step in education because it ensured everyone was able to receive an education, and those with disabilities were not excluded. https://sites.ed.gov/idea/ -
A Nation at Risk
A Nation as Risk proposed a core of new basics, English, math, science, social studies, and computer sciences. -
The Standards Movement
The Standards Movement requires clear and measurable standards for all school students. Students are measured against the concrete standard. -
No Child Left Behind
This act required that all schools had a standard for what a child should know and learn in English and math. This ensured that students were all learning the same thing.
