Spencer Cofer

EDU 202

Professor Christensen

Historical Timeline

Historical Timeline

1600s

• Main focus was religious education, and basics of reading, values, and manners and

were taught at home or in family lessons

• Schools taught by women at their homes for a fee were known as Dame Schools.

• Dame Schools were taught to boy and girls for a fee to learn basics of reading and

writing mainly

• 1635 Boston Latin Grammar School

• Latin Grammar Schools for boys they learned to read and write Latin so they could

become leaders or ministers

• In 1636 Harvard was established, first college in America, was only attended by those

who could afford

• Apprenticeships were taken by boys and girls, girls usually learned home keeping skills

from moms, and boys were taken to a master of s certain trade and worked on farms or

inside shops

• Some masters would partake in “In loco parentis” or “in place of parents” and would

take kids who they taught and raise them for some years while they taught them trade
 • 1642 Massachusetts law was the first time that education was require to children either

from masters or parents

• 1647 was added on to Massachusetts law that every 50 households must provide

reading and writing education

• Also it was added that every town of 100 households provide a Latin grammar school to

be able to provide and prepare youth for college

• 1687 first textbook the New England Primer was made

1700s

• Main focus went away from European influence and focused on more broad newer

ways of thinking

• Thomas Jefferson comes out as huge supporter of education but for all whites in all

social and economic classes

• 1751 Franklin Academy is built

• Ben Franklin had academy built to go away from Latin grammar school

• Franklin academy focused on a curriculum of math, navigation, athletics, drama,

astronomy, and many more classes

• 1783 Noah Webster’s American Spelling Book is made

• 1785 Ordinance Act made it so areas along Ohio and Mississippi river and the great lakes

had to reserve land for educational services

1800s

• Main focus was education for all public school came about education more accessible to

all
 • 1821 in Boston first Elementary school for 176 boys

• 1828 Andrew Jackson became president and known as the voice of the common people

• This resulted in common folk demanding access to education

• 1837 Horace Mann became secretary of Massachusetts Board of Education who was

major advocate of common or public schools

• He began reforming education he advocated for high quality schools and much cleaner

schools

• Also came up with teaching programs for new teachers

• 1852 In Boston another elementary was opened for girls

• 1874 Kalamazoo v. Michigan case made it so taxes could be used towards secondary

schools to help funding and maintaining

• 1880 close to 10 million in elementary and private and public schools were established

• 1896 Plessey v Ferguson began segregations of schools

1900s

• Main focus is on industrial growth not agricultural so schools focused on it using high

schools to teach and make it easier to get kids out and to jobs

• 1909 first junior high in Ohio for ages 7-9 focused on guidance and counseling and core

curriculum

• John Dewey very controversial and influential educator

• 1954 Brown v Board of Education ruled school segregation unconstitutional no more

school segregation

• 1957 space race began pushed to educate scientists and engineers for race to the moon
 • 1958 (NCEA) National Defense Education Act funded improve instruction and curriculum

development and help with teacher training and provide student loans and scholarships

• 1964 Civil Rights Act helped in desegregated schools completely

• 1972 Title IX no discrimination based on gender in education

• 1983 The Imperative for Educational Reform stated declining test scores and increase of

illiterate Americans

• 1990 Abbott v Burke demanded that funds be spent for states on failing schools more so

than non-failing schools

2000s

• Main focus was test scores of children instead of based of individual student schools

based of test scores of all students so schools became more level

• 2001 No Child Left Behind(NCLB) creates test culture measured schools on test scores of

all students so schools focus and make sure students get core curriculum

• (NCLB) gives schools and districts report cars

• (NCLB) Makes it so failing schools are closed and then come back up as charter schools

• 2004 Individualizes with Disabilities Act (IDEA) reforms made included rehab and high

quality special education teacher and staff

• 2009 Race to the Top funds for teacher evaluation

• Race to the Top funds based on test scores of students pushing (NCLB)