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Education in the Colonial Period
Big towns were the only ones required to build schools. Everywhere else it wasn't required and they were all private schools. Most of the teaching was biblical and children were taught to fear God. The New England Primer was the text book used. -
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was a large advocate for education. He thought everyone should be educated so they can understand politics. Slaves weren't allowed to have a formal education. According to Jefferson public education is the key to democracy. -
Horace Mann
He documented details about public schools to ensure the best education possible. He visited over 1000 schools. He came tot eh conclusion that text books were inadequate and teachers didn't have the knowledge or skills necessary to teach. He wanted more to be educated so he made it free and raised the standards. -
Common Schools
Common schools was highly promoted by Horace Mann. The board decided students would be taught common curriculum so they all had an equil opportunity for success. -
Fredrick Douglas
Lead African Americans to fight for education. He recuited 90 African Americans to fight for education. They signed a protest to end segregated schools. He was the beginning of the African Americans wanting a change in schools. -
Sarah Roberts
Sarah's dad wanted her to attend a better school that was closer to home. His daughter was kick out, and rejected from the schools. He went to court to dispute the case but lost. The roberts were known as the dreamers of what education could be for the African Americans. -
Women in Education
Catharine Beecher taught that teaching was a women's moral calling. She founded colleges for women so that they could teach out west. Women started to care about their students. Children of the west had their own text books. -
Progressive Reform Movement
This band the child labor. It made students go to school instead of work. John Dewey is known as the father of the movement. The movement believed that if schools were anchored in the child teaching would be better. Children learned by doing. Teaching them involved the childrens emotional, physical, mental and social development. The start of field trips. -
Immigrants in School
mmigrants didn't like how there was just one religion in the school. They didn't want their child to study the protestent bible in class. Parents started to demand that the government provide funds for their own religous school that their child could attend. There were many riots. 13 people died in the Philidelphia riots. The government started to integrate their cultures into the classroom. -
The Gary Plan
This took place in Gary Indiana. Immigrants came to indiana for jobs. The students had a split shift system. They would go to different classes about different subjects. The movement was to teach the students to Work, study, and play. -
Civil Rights Movement
Troops were sent in by the federal government to invocie desegregation in schools. African American students felt unwanted in the white schools so they didn't want to be there either. Desegregation wasn't inforced by states so many stayed segregated. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Took place in Topeka Kansas. Classes were not segregated but extra curricular activities were. There were different student governments, proms, etc. There were 18 elementary schools for white children compared to the 4 for african americans. Supreme court ruled that education was a right that is available to everyone on equal terms. No more segregation. -
LBJ's Legacy
LBJ while president played a major role on desegregation of schools. He believed that an equal chance at education provides and equal chance at life. He started programs that helped students succeed. He made it so that if schools didn't desegregate that they would lose federal funding. -
Standards Movement
This was caused by Ronald Reagan. The schools were preforming well in the main subjects. The down side was that there were no progress of the students. The standards movement caused the schools to compete and rise to the challenge. This brought on competitive standardized testing in schools. Also the teachers started to be tested to make sure that they were quilified and teaching the correct material while pushing their students. -
NCLB Act
This is the No Child Left Behind Act. This made schools have to meet a yearly progress average for students. It places a lot of responsibility on the teachers to make sure the students are staying are keeping up. This makes sure that the teachers are highly qualified in each subject taught.
