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Period: Sep 25, 1492 to
Education in the Colonial Period
The English settlers, especially the Puritans, were primarily responsible for the practice of limiting the states role in education. Dame school provided little education in the living rooms of neighboors consisting of reading, math, and writing. Grammar school was offered to older boys where they also taught philosophy and Latin. -
Northwest Land Ordinance
During the colonial times, each colony was in charge of monitoring their own education system. With so many different religions and ways of life, schools were difficult to maintain and centralize. Some schools purpose was to create good citizens, others strengthened children with potential to become leaders or ministers, and others hardly had education due to the ruralness of the area. Congress enacted the Land Ordinance to ensure the maintenance of schools and set aside land. -
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Monitorial System
A method of teaching where older and/or more advanced students learned their lessons from the adult teacher in charge of the school and then transmitted their knowledge to the inferior students. -
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Seconday Schools
MOST IMPORTANT
The first Seconday School was in Boston in 1821. It was an English Classical School for boys only. It just offered a practical education along with Latin and philosophy.
In 1860 there were 300 high schools vs. 6000 academies. In 1900 there were 6000 because of the growth of the population due to immigration, growth of the industry, ect. -
Common Schools
MOST IMPORTANT
Horace Mann wa elected as the Secretary of the Board of Education and started Common Schools which offers a common body of knowledge to give children equal opportunities. Common Schools offered high quality, free schooling that was funded by tax dollars. This was originally met with a lot of opposition but Mann faught hard for this way of education. Chairs, blackboard, and standardized textbooks are some of the things used in Common Schools that we use in modern day schools. -
Brown vs Board of Education
MOST IMPORTANT
Considered one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, Brown vs the Board of Education is what changed racial segregation in schools. Oliver Brown, parent of one of the children denied access to a Topeka Kansas' white schools, took his case to court saying that racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and eventually started integration. -
School Choice Movement
The School Choice Movement offers programs aiming to give families an opportunity to choose the school their children should attend. School choice does not give preference to one form of schooling or another. School choice program offers open enrollment laws allowing students to attend other public school, private school or charter schools. -
National Defense Education Act
The U.S. Congress reached the conclusion that the American schools and colleges were not producing the quantity and quality of scientific and technical specialists necessary to keep pace with the Soviet Union. NDEA also provided funds to state educational agencies for the purposes of improving the teaching of science, mathematics, and foreign languages. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
MOST IMPORTANT
Kennedy then Johnson, tried to increase federal funding to schools but there were problems with Catholic parochial. They wanted a share of the money which caused problems with with church and state. The purpose of ESEA was to serve low-income students, get federal grants for text and library books, it created special education centers, and created scholarships -
Nation at Risk
MOST IMPORTANT
The US Department of Education came out with this report in 1983 to address the current state of American education. The most famous line, "the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people" shows the purpose of the report. That need for improvement was based on numerous statistics listed in the report. -
Standards Movement
The National Council on Education Standards and Testing (NCEST) was established at the urging of Secretary of Education to begin the development of bi-partisan national standards and testing for K-12 education. -
Committee of 10
Appointed by the National Education Association (NEA), the committee, composed mainly of presidents of leading colleges, was charged with establishing curriculum standardization for public-high-school students who intended to go to college. -
Individuals with Disabilities Act
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation. IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities. -
Charter Schools
Charter schools are a type of public school that are allowed the freedom to be more innovative while being held accountable for advancing student achievement. Because they are public schools they are open to all children, do not charge tuition, and don't have special entry requirements. They believe school leaders should be given freedom to do whatever it takes to help students achieve and should share what works with the broader public school system so that all students benefit. -
No Child Left Behind
No Child Left Behind was a reauthorization of ESEA done by the Bush administration. With the same idea, NCLB exposed achievement gaps among traditionally underserved and vulnerable students and their peers, and started an important national dialogue on educational improvement
