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Settlement in Virginia
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Education Law of 1647*
MOST IMPORTANT
The Massachusettes Law helped established the principle of compulsory education. The ducation law of 1647 (also called the "Old Deluder Satan Law") ordered every township of 50 households to provide a teacher to teach reading and writing. Townships of 100 or more households had to establish a grammar school.
This is extremely important in today's world because it helped establish that schools needed to be provided and children must be taught in the home! -
Massachusetts Education Law
This Law was to insure parents and masters were providing education for their children and what the child was being taught. Any partent or master failing to meet obligations could be apprenticed to a new master. -
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Rush's lifetime
Rush was a medical Dr. and a professor. He was deeply interested in education as well as social issues. strongly opposed the death sentence. Together with Benjamin Franklin, he organized first abolition society in Philadelphia. -
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Common Schools
Only larger towns were required to build schools. Education was neither free nor public elsewhere. Some parents paid a fee to send kids to dame school. -
average lifetime school attendance
less than 82 days! -
Jefferson Graduated College
I believe Jefferson's graduation from the College of William and Mary was vital because of how much he influenced the educational world. Jefferson wanted everyone to have a foundation of education. He continued to push for public education. -
Blue-Back Speller*
Noah Webster HouseNoah Webster (1758- 1843) published the "Elementary Spelling Book. 75 million copies were sold. It was nick-named the Blue-Back Speller because of the color of the bindin
This is significant because Webster was the greatest influence on education in the new republic. He sought cultural independence. He prepared a number of spelling, grammar and reading books which influences todays world because he helped kick off the publication of textbooks. -
Charity Schools
By 1820 free school societies were growing rapidly. In New York City, the charity schools were teaching more than 2,00 children. -
Average lifetime school attendance
4 months. Improvmrny from 1776 -
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Annual cost per pupil
The price of school in Massechusetts increased of this time span. In 1837 it cost $2.81 per pupil and in 1848 it was $4.80. -
Segregation
All throughout the 1840s, blacks were still restricted to two primary schools. Both of these schools were segregated. Afican American's formed a petition against segregation, but were rejected. -
Average attendance 1848
7 months. A continual increase of the amount of days spent in school has happened over the span of about 60 years. A good sign for education! -
School Bells
Henry Ford started his assembly lines for building cars in the early 1900s. A bell would sound at the time when each worker should be done with their part on the assembly line before the car moved on to the next station. School bells started in 1903 in New York City schools to tell students when to move to the next class. -
First multiple choice tests
Frederick Kelly created the first modern multiple choice test in 1914. -
Brown vs. Board of Education*
Brown vs. BoardMOST IMPORTANT
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated educational facilities have no place in public education and generate a feeling of inferiority that affects the child's motivation to learn. -
Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act
MOST IMPORTANT
This has given those with disablilities the opportunity to grow and learn just as much as the rest of the students out there!
IDEA was originally enacted by Congress in 1975 to ensure that children with disabilities have the opportunity to receive a free appropriate public education, just like other children. -
School Choice
The Republican takeover of Congress and many state legislatures in the 1994 elections
put Goals 2000 in conflict with a renewed conservative agenda,"Contract with America;'
Which had as a key feature support for choice and privatization in education -
No Child Left Behind
NCLBMOST IMPORTANT
No Child Left Behind required that by the 2005-06 school year all states must have developed standards for what every child should know and learn in math and reading and that 95% of all students in grades 3-8 be tested annually and at least once in grades 10 to 12 to determine their progress in meeting the standards. NCLB sets a target of 100% of tested children meeting a stateestablished "proficient" level on state standards by 2014. -
Statewide schools
Jefferson's dream of statewide schools began to take place! They were free of charge so anyone could attend. The system was intirely funded by taxes. -
secretary of board of education
Horace Mann helped with the beginnings of state wide schools. He was a reformer, consummate politician and the leader of wig politics. He rode his horse distict to district to see the status of school houses. Mann wanted there to be equality between schools. -
The Impact of WW2*
As the war with Nazi Germany spread in Europe and American factories were increasingly called on to supply the Allied war effort, the American economy began to recover from the Depression. Once this country entered the war, every institution, including the schools, was dominated by the war effort.According to a statement made by the NEA shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, -
Sarah Roberts*
Sarah RobertsAfrican American's drew up a petition- against segregation. earnestly requested their children to be allowed to attend the schools in which the district was that they resided. Sara MOST MOST IMPORTANT
Roberts went to smith’s school. her father enrolled her in different schools, but she was rejected because of her color. roberts vowed to sew the city, naming his daughter plaintiff. some argued integration was not the answer.
