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"Ye Olde Deluder Satan" Law
This law is important to the history of education because many of the ideas it introduced are still used in education today. These ideas have evolved to suit the present time but still exist in spirit. Examples are the original idea of taxing the entire town to pay for school, though that has evolved into state and national taxes. Another idea that continues today is the penalty for truancy. -
Creation of the Public High School
The origin of the public high school in the United States is critical to our education system today. The idea of free, accessible public schooling is the basis of the American education system and can be traced back to this moment. The idea of upper level education not being for the wealthy alone was the first step in the outward growth of inclusion in the American education system. -
The American Journal of Education
The publishing of the American Journal of Education was critical to the American educational history because of the way it embraced both the old and the new of teaching. The concept of new teachers understanding the roots of teaching while still learning new, updated methods of educating students is still used as an ideal today. Pre-service teachers are taught the history of education as well as the best modern tools to help them in their own classroom. -
Cardinal Principles Report
The ideals expressed in the Cardinal Principles Report were another step in the outward growth of inclusion in the American education system. The idea that not all children have the same way of learning is a fundamental guideline for all teachers. It also had an important part in introducing the teaching of appropriate social and cultural behaviors instead of the traditional academic course of the time. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The unanimous court ruling that separation and segregation were inherently unequal was yet another step in the outward growth of inclusion in not only the American educational systems, but society as a whole. The sense of 'otherness' given to African-Americans from being segregation needed to be crushed so they could be seen as equals and it is arguable that this equality would come from schooling African-American and Caucasian students together.
