Timeline of American Education

By BG2009
  • Discussion of Teachers and the Curriculum during the American Colonial Period

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    American Colonial Period

  • Describe the education of New England colonies

    Puritans and what they found important
  • Discuss the few universities & colleges

  • Describe education in the Middle Atlantic states during this period

    The Quakers, a religious group from England that settled around Philadelphia, believed that everyone should be educated.
  • Explain the idea of an apprentice

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    The American Early National Period

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    The American Common School Period

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    The American Progressive Period

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    The 1920's and The Great Depression Period