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2016 BCE
Education in the Colonial Period
Initially, the Puritans attempted to follow English practice regarding the establishment and Support of schools by relying on private benefactors and limiting the role of the state.However, the general absence of wealthy Puritan migrants soon led to the abandonment of this practice and, because of fears that parents were neglecting the education of their children, to a more direct role for the state. -
2016 BCE
First Education Laws: Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Law of 1642 ordered the selectmen of each town to ascertain whether parents and masters (of apprentices) were, in fact, providing for the education of their children. The selectmen were also to determine what the child was being taught. -
2016 BCE
The Impact of Horace Mann
He led a campaign to organize the schools in Massachusetts into a state system and to establish a state board of education.He is "the father of American education". -
2016 BCE
Monitorial Schools, Charity Schools, & Infant Schools
In monitorial system, one paid teacher instructed hundreds of pupils through the use of student teachers or monitors, who were chosen for their academic abilities. charity schools were for the children of the poor in urban areas. Infant schools were taught by women and were designed for children ages 4 to 7 who, because they would go to work in a factory at a very early age, probably would not receive any other schooling. -
2016 BCE
Secondary School Movement
Because of the growth of population and industry, there are quite a few demands for skilled workers. Since then, secondary education became important to public. -
2016 BCE
Committee of Ten
In 1892, in an effort to standardize the curriculum, the National Education Association established the Committee of Ten.The committee recommended an early introduction to the basic subjects
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2016 BCE
The Progressive Reform Movement
The progressive reform movement, which had such a widespread impact on political, social, and economic life, also found expression in education. reformers called for making the schools, particularly
those in the cities, more sanitary, more open to air and sunlight,
to creative activity. They asked for lowered pupil-teacher ratios and added the provision of basic health care and food services to the responsibilities of the school. -
2016 BCE
The Impact of John Dewey
Dewey provided the intellectual foundation for progressive education.He rejected the old, rigid, subject-centered curriculum in favor of the child-centered curriculum in which learning came through experience, not rate memorization.His classic Democracy and Education (1916) provided the strongest statement of his educational theories.Link text -
2016 BCE
The Measurement Movement (IQ, Thorndike, Terman)
One cornerstone of educational psychology was laid by Lewis M.Terman, Edward , Thorndike, and other psychologists involved in the development of the measurement movement. Also,Terman developed the intelligence quotient (IQ), a number indicating the level of an individual's mental development. -
2016 BCE
The Impact of World War Two
The war had a heavy impact on the schools. Not only did large numbers of teachers leave the classroom for the battlefield, but enrollment also dropped significantly as youth chose not to return to school or to go to work. By the end of the war more than Which of the educational one-third of the teachers employed in 1940-41 had left teaching. High school enrollments declined from 6.7 million in 1941 to 5.5 million in 1944. Link text -
2016 BCE
The Impact of the War on Poverty (and LBJ’s legacy)
The results of Poverty were rising crime rates, a decline in qualified manpower for military service, and other social and economic problems.At that time, education was viewed as a major factor in the elimination of poverty.If the poor were provided the skills and education for employment, they could achieve middle-class economic and social status and break the "cycle of poverty". Link text -
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Timeline for American Education History
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2001 BCE
No Child Left Behind, 2001
No Child Left Behind was claimed by George Bush. It 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.Link text -
1983 BCE
A Nation at Risk Report, 1983
This report is about what was wrong with schools could be fixed by top-down state actions directed at improving achievement and accountability. States enacted higher graduation requirements, standardized curriculum mandates, increased the testing of both teachers and students, and raised requirements for teachers. -
1958 BCE
Sputnik and NDEA, 1957-58
In 1958 the federal government passed the National Defense Education Act (NDEA).By directing significant federal funding to specific curricular areas, particularly mathematics, science, and modern foreign languages, the federal government for the first time attempted to influence the curriculum in general elementary and secondary education.Link text -
1770 BCE
Common School
Common school is the most significant still unfinished achievement in American educational system.
