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• Lower classes learned at the elementary level (reading, writing, and computation and
religious instruction).
• Upper classes had opportunity to go to Latin grammar schools where they were given
• Status of teachers
▪ Elementary level teachers had the least respect and secondary level
• Colonial Schools
▪ Initial instruction for boys and the only schooling for girls.
▪ Reading lessons were based on the Bible, various catechisms, and the
▪ Latin and Greek were the principle studies, though arithmetic was
introduced in 1745.
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4. One of the first schools for African Americans and Native Americans was started
• Ideas from Benjamin Franklin, Sarah Pierce, Noah Webster, and Thomas Jefferson
shaped education.
• At the end of the American Revolution, literate African Americans were taught by their
• Other schools for African and Native Americans were started by the Quakers.
• Horace Mann is known as the champion of the common school movement, which led to
the free, public, locally controlled elementary schools. He improved the quality of
schools using his new title Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education and
programs
• McGuffey reader’s six-volume series had the greatest impact on what children learned.
• Morrill Land-Grant Act, passed in 1862, provided federal land for colleges and set a
• A Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling in 1850 supported “equal, but separate” schools
1865-1920Compulsory Education
• After the Civil War and emancipation, schools for former slaves were opened by African
• Booker T. Washington believed that education could improve African American lives just
1. He helped find an industrial school that played a key role in bringing racial
equality.
• The National Education Association (NEA), founded in 1857, and the American
• The NEA appointed Committee of Ten, Committee of Fifteen and the Commission on the
• Women became influential in shaping the American education in the early 1900s.
• Dewey`s Laboratory Schools curriculum was based off of the student`s needs and
interests.
• Diversity of American school populations increased during late 19th and early 20th
centuries.
• Lanham Act (1941) funded training in war plants, construction of schools, and provision
of child care.
• G.I. Bill of rights (1944) provided payments for veterans for tuition and room and board.
• The National Defense Education Act of 1958 sponsored research and innovations in
• As a result, from the decision in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case, schools
• April 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed which allocated
funds on the basis of the number of poor children in school districts, which led to an act
in 1968 that provided federal aid to low-income children that were bilingual.
• The 1970s saw drops in enrollment, test scores, and public confidence in schools.
1. New educational policies called for equality of education for all in the U.S. and
• A Nation at Risk and other reports gave evidence that schools were failing to reach their
• Three trends will continue to be educational priorities throughout this century: equity for
all students, excellence and high standards, and accountability for schools and teachers.
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