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Education in the Colonial Period
Colonial Education was determined by the social class of the family. -
Monitorial Schools, Charity Schools, & Infant Schools
The implication is the same: schools are woefully outmoded. ... Mann's introduction of the “Prussian model” – the so-called “charity schools. .... and the era when primary schooling in the North became coeducational almost everywhere -
The Impact of Jefferson, Rush, & Webster
he was an advocate for equal chance for education regardless of financial standing. His plan was to take the children excelling the most after three years of free education and place them in an institution of higher learning, regardless of their ability to afford it. The children that qualified for this would receive funding for their education. Jefferson also said the languages like Greek and Latin needed to be taught in order to better educate the children. -
The Impact of Horace Mann
The contributions of the education system reformer Horace Mann, who lived from 1796-1859, have had a lasting effect on education in the United States. Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, on May 4, 1796, to a poor farming family. It was this impoverished background that would serve as a framework for Mann's work. -
Common School
A common school was a public school in the United States during the nineteenth century. Horace Mann was a strong advocate for public education and the common school -
The Impact of John Dewey
John Dewey is probably most famous for his role in what is called progressive education. Progressive education is essentially a view of education that emphasizes the need to learn by doing. ... This places Dewey in the educational philosophy of pragmatism -
Population Growth and Immigration in the 19th century
Many of those who helped account for the population growth of cities were immigrants arriving from around the world. -
The Progressive Reform Movement
The Progressive Era (1890 - 1920) Progressivism is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America. Progressivism began as a social movement and grew into a political movement. The early progressives rejected Social Darwinism. -
Committee of Ten
Search Results
The Committee of Ten was a working group of educators that, in 1892, recommended the standardization of American high school curriculum. -
Impact of WW2
Aftermath of World War II. The aftermath of World War II was the beginning of an era defined by the decline of the old great powers and the rise of two superpowers: the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States of America (USA), creating a bipolar world. -
Brown vs Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
The Civil Rights Movement & The War on Poverty
For many African Americans, the War on Poverty in general offered economic opportunities. The community action programs, in particular, provided a framework to further pursue the democratic goals of the civil rights movement. -
Sputnik and NDEA, 1957-58
the NDEA stands as a major act of reform. It marked the beginning of large-scale involvement of the U.S. federal government in education. -
No Child Left Behind
which passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support in 2001 and was signed into law by President George W. Bush on Jan. 8, 2002, is the name for the most recent update to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. -
Growth of Standardized Testing
One essential part of educating students successfully is assessing their progress in learning to high standards. 2007 is when I noticed it more where I was going to school. That is why I said that year it didn't really say a specific year.