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Literacy Education in colonial America
Literacy education was encouraged by the belief that salvation required the ability to read the bible. So they taught children to read at an early age by sounding out syllables before learning the meaning of a word. -
Ivan Pavlov
Behaviorism is based on the idea that knowledge is independent and on the exterior of the learner. -
Wolfgang Kohler
In contrast to behaviorism, cognitivism focuses on the idea that students process information they receive rather than just responding to a stimulus, as with behaviorism. -
Literacy Education by the 70s
Educators began understanding how the mind receives, processes, stores, and retrieves information. Since that time, sparking debates on effective methods for teaching reading and writing. -
Laws in education literacy
President Ronald Reagan's "A Nation at Risk" report led to many changes in education literacy through five reforms.
1. Content
2. Standards and Expectations
3. Time
4. Teaching
5. Leadership and Fiscal Support -
Laws in education literacy
The No Child Left Behind Act required states the implement standardized tests and penalize schools with poor performance. This also led to many schools having to close their doors. -