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First School
The first public school in the
American colonies,Boston Latin
School, is open -
Period: to
1600s
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Harvard
Harvard collage had its beginnings and was founded by the Great and General court of Massachussetts in News Town -
Teachers
Massachussetts Bay colonies becomes the first require towns of atleast 50 households to hire teachers to educate their children. Towns of 100 households or more would build public elemantary schools -
Working Children
a evening school was established for working children in New Amsterdamn ( New York City -
African Americans
School for black students was made in Philadelphia called Quaker -
Period: to
1700s
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public school
Pennsylvania state constitution
calls for free public
education for poor families.
Wealthy families are
expected to pay for their
children’s schooling -
poor children
The New York Public
School Society is formed by
wealthy businessmen to
provide education for poor
children. Schools are run
on the “Lancasterian”
model, in which one “master”
teaches hundreds of
students in a signel room -
orginazed system
.not until the 1840s did an organized system exist. Education reformers like Horace Mann and Henry Barnard, working in Massachusetts and Connecticut respectively, helped create statewide common-school systems. -
poor immigrants
State of Massachusetts passes first its compulsory education law. The goal is to make sure that the children of poor immigrants get "civilized" and learn obedience and restraint, so they make good workers and don't contribute to social upheaval. -
1865-1877
African Americans mobilize to bring public education to the south.African Americans in the South make alliances with white Republicans to push for many political changes, including for the first time rewriting state constitutions to guarantee free public education. -
native americans
Congress makes it illegal for Native Americans to be taught in their native languages. Native children as young as four years old are taken from their parents and sent to Bureau of Indian Affairs off-reservation boarding schools, whose goal, as one BIA official put it, is to "kill the Indian to save the man." -
1893-1913
local immigrant communities lose control of their local schools. Makeup of school boards changes from small local businessmen and some wage earners to professionals (like doctors and lawyers), big businessmen and other members of the richest classes.
