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Education was heavily influenced by the English as well as the French and Spanish.This is due to the fact that most Colonials were from England, France, and Spain.
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These three major influencers paved the way for free and public education. They believed everyone should be educated, even though their push for education was met with disapproval.
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Created the foundation of Free Kindergarten and Elementary Schools.
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This help create free public secondary education. Before it was mainly secondary education was in the form of expensive private schools.
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This is where free public schools started to form.
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Number one event. Horace Mann is known as the " Father of American education".HIs time serving as Massachusetts Secretary of Education and Chief state school officer helped propel the common school movement and other educational reforms. It was impart due to hIs ideology that the free public schools we have today were created.
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Helped Standardize curriculum in secondary schools
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Psychologist who helped reform education. Helped us understand the importance of psychology in education
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Decline of teachers and school attendance. Education budget was cut, most of the funds went to the war effort.
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Second most important event. This declared separate but equal unconstitutional.
This court decision ruled that public schools could not deny entry to black schools. Blacks were finally allowed in white schools.This helped give African Americans the right to an equal education.
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4th most important event. Helped give funding to low-income schools. This act helps give low-income schools the resources they need to give their students a successful education. Gives poor students the quality education they deserve.
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3rd most important event. This Act gives children with disabilities with right to quality education. This requires schools to provide the resources these students need to succeed. This act help integrate students with disabilities into a regular classroom .
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Fifth most important event. It is a report by the National commission on Excellence in Education stating that American education is in shambles. This lead to many reforms including longer schooling and required higher education ,at least a bachelors degree, to be a teacher. This also led to a higher standard for graduation requirements.
http://neatoday.org/2013/04/25/a-nation-at-risk-turns-30-where-did-it-take-us-2/ -
Helped create competition for regular public school by providing parents with a choice of where to send their child
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required schools ,mostly title one schools, to make adequate yearly progress based on the states standard of proficiency.
