History of Education

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    The Colonial Period

  • Roots on American Education

    Began with Jamestown colony, the first permanet English settlement in North America.
  • Boston Latin Grammer School

    Prepared boys for ministry and law.
  • The Southern Colonies

    Living in Georgia, you would not atted school because school didn't exist at the time.
  • Middle Colonies

    Diversity families in the middle colonies created paronchial schools, which included the study of religion in addition to the three R's.
  • Franklins Academy

    Emilinated religion, focused on practical needs, such as math, science and navigation.
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    Early National Period

  • Land Ordinance Act

    Federal goverment esablished a role for itself in public education.
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    The Common School Movement

  • American Educational System

    States and local goverment taxed citizens to support schools.
    States creadted education dept. and appointed state superintendents of instruction.
    States imporved teacher preparation.
  • Education for All

    Common School Movenment, a historic attempt to make education available to all children in the United States.
  • English Classical School

    Focused on needs of boys not attending college
  • Horace Mann, A lawyer turned educator.

    was a key figure in the common schol movement, Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education from 1837-1848, outspoken advocate for public education, believing that it was the key to deveolping our country. bulid 50 new secondary schools
  • Nation's First Compulsory School

    Mann, passed the nations first compulaory school attendance law
  • American Children Enrolled in Schools

    50 % american children were enrolled in public schools and 28 of 35 states had establised states board of education.
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    Present Day Education

  • Commottee of Ten

    Created standards and methods for high schools.
  • Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education

    Created Cardinal Principles of Education, including applied goals in health and civic education.
  • Elementary Schools

    Grade levels introduced in elementary schools.