Running head: Educational Changes Timeline 1

Sarah Acosta

EDU 201 (3003)

Educational Changes Timeline

February 25, 2017

Educational Changes Timeline 2

Educational Changes Timeline

1620 1750 1820 1865 1920 1945 2000 present

American Colonies Revolutionary Pd. Progressive Era Modern Post-war Era The New Century

*edu promoted *1785: N.W. *common *increased *edu should *1957: The *3 trends:
religion Ordinance: school enrollment due focus on Soviet Union equity for all
federal land movement to the spread of childrens sparked an edu students,
*emphasis on was given to common interest & reform in the excellence and
the basics. the states for *1821: 1st state schools leads to practical needs U.S. -emphasis high standards,
edu purposes supported H.S. management in science, &
*two-track techniques *opposed math, & accountability
system *religious *Horace Mann: teaching that
associated with language
influence on teachers should relied *data gathered
*edu primarily todays schools (Americas
edu began to be trained in exclusively on indicates an
for the upper (ex. centralized ability to
decline professional textbooks, achievement
class control, defend itself is
programs memorization, gap
increasing directly related
*1751: isolation of
*teachers had a *7/3/1839: 1st authority for to the quality
Benjamin
state) instruction of its edu) *innovation
low societal Franklins public teacher
from real world zones
status; respect private prep. school
increased with *1873: 1st *National
secondary opened in *teachers *2001: No
grade level & successful Defense Edu
school Lexington, MA functioned as Child Left
edu public Act of 1958
Philadelphia kindergarten guides rather Behind Act
*6 vol.
*teachers Academy established by than *school
McGuffey *2010:
usually had no opened: Susan Blow taskmasters desegregation
readers: lessons proposed
more than an broader and
of virtue, *John Dewy *5/17/1954: changes to the
elem. edu. more practical *child-centered
morals, and the The Supreme NCLB Act and
instruction, curriculum
like *Montessori Court rejected reauthorization
*3 main types focused on
ENG rather * Freedmens method: separate but of the Elem. &
of schooling: *1862:
1) dame than Latin Bureau: developmental- equal Secondary Edu
Morrills Land- ly appropriate Act.
schools: basics provide the
Grant Act: edu activities *edu is the way
for boys & * girls were foundations for
federal land for (still used to break *incentives to
girls educated for edu for former
colleges; set a today) generational promote
2) reading & different slaves
precedent for poverty excellence
writing reasons than
federal *organizations *student
schools: for boys (ex. *the U.S is one
involvement in were formed to diversity *April 1965:
boys sewing, of the few
edu professionalize increased Elementary &
3) Latin cooking, etc.) countries that
teaching: The dramatically- Secondary Edu
grammar *1850: 1st goal was to Act: funds offers to all
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schools *Sarah Pierces recorded National Edu. rapidly based on how children a free
(college prep): Litchfield official Association assimilate them many poor public edu
-for boys ages Female grounds for (NEA) & into students in
7 or 8 Academy was school American mainstream school districts
-lasted for 7 the exception segregation Federation of society/culture
yrs., then of ENG (although was Teachers *1968: The
changed to 4 academies: already (AFT) *WWII lead to Bilingual Edu
yrs. taught girls occurring prior government Act
-established in to) *Committee of funded edu
*1821: Troy 10: H.S. are to programs for *1970s:
1636
Seminary, one prepare veterans, accountability
-6 dys. a wk.
of the 1st students for including the and equal
-emphasized
women college & for Lanham Act opportunity
Latin, Greek,
theology, & colleges, by life (1941) & the
*back-to-the-
philosophy Emma Willard G. I. Bill of
*Comm. of 15 basics
Rights (1944)
*Thomas movement
*MA act of *Commission
Jefferson
1642: universal on the *questioned
advocated edu
compulsory Reorganization what & how
for common
edu; is known of Secondary schools were
people to pre-
as the 1st Edu.: teaching; thus,
serve liberty,
school law accommodate development of
and the need
individual a variety of
*MA act of for a uniform
differences instructional
1647: school system
strategies
mandated the * more women
*1783: Noah
establishment became *Title IX of the
Websters
and support of teachers Edu Amend-
Elem. Spelling
schools. ment Act
Bk and Amer.
*teachers
*1704: Elias Dictionary *Edu for All
became
Neau started distance from Handicapped
*1819: federal
one of the 1st the communit- Children Act
funds were
schools for ies they taught
granted for *1980s: more
African and
reservation reform
Native
schools proposals
Americans
*1990s: less
support for &
decentralize-
tion of public
schools;
teachers take a
leadership role
in reform