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Noah Webster * Most Important
Noah Webster helped bring standatdized books to common schools. He published the "Blue Back Speller" in 1783. He followed it up with a grammar book in 1784 and a reader in 1785. He helped to make the American language American. He wanted to distinguish our new country from Britan. He did this by creating our own spellings of words to sperate us from them. Created the idea of standardization that we still use. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1460977 -
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Fredrick Douglass
Helped argue the point that separate is not equal. Fredrick lived from 1818 to 1895. He was a slave and escaped at age 20. From then on he was against, slavery, racism, and worked on civil rights. -
Horace Mann * Most Important
Horace Mann's first teaching job was at Brown University. In 1834 Mann signed into law, a bill creating the Massachusetts Board of Education. Mann resigned from the legislature to take on the role of Secretary of Education. The Idea of the common school was his lifes work. He argued that all citizens should have an equal right to schools. This is the model we use for public schools today. http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/education-biographies/horace-mann -
Common Schools
Common school that all children could go to. Basic skills were taught. In the beging they were very unequal in what was taught. They were only free in large cities. -
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John Dewey
The father of the expiremental education movement (progressive education). Schools needed to be anchored in the would child, in order for them to learn. -
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Education after the Civil War
The end of Civil War was a large turning point for our education system. The literacy rate for African Americans soared from 5% to 70%. -
Population Growth and Immigration in the 19th Century * Most Important
Between 1880 and 1900, 8.5 million people immigrated to America. Immigration plus the natural growth of the existing population, overloaded the school system. Classrooms were overcrowded and understaffed. Teachers worked in hazardous conditions. They taught students from different backgrounds, languages, and cultures. It was akin to daycare. Public schools, paid for by tax payers, improved the system into what we have today.
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Civil Rights
The Civil Rights Moment led to more social and economic benefits for African Americans. Brown vs. Board of Education was the start of the process. Civil Rights carried it forward to insure all schools were available to all students. -
Brown VS. The Board of Education * Most Important
DESEGREGATION OF SCHOOLS
"The Supreme Court ruled on May 17, 1954 that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the "separate but equal" principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case."
Segregation is now illegal in the United States. We promote an equal education to all with out basis.
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National Education and Defense Act - Sputnik
The launch of Sputnik by Russia in 1957 fueled the NEDA bill through Congress. It made Fedral find available, for higher education, through grants and loans. The idea was to give everyone a chance for higher education and to catch up to Russia in the space race. (National security) -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. He believed that "full educational opportunity" should be "our first national goal." It offered new grants to districts for textbooks and library books, for funding special education centers, and scholarships. -
Individuals With Disabilities Act - Most Important
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Individuals With Disabilities Act - Most Important
IDEA was put into affect in 1975. It gives everyone the right to a free and public education.The IDEA has six main points. They are Individualized Education Program (IEP), Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), Least Restrictive Environment (LRE), Appropriate Evaluation, Parent and Teacher Participation, and Procedural Safeguards.. Confidentiality is one of the key components as an educator. We use the IDEA everyday in classrooms all around America. https://www.understood.org/en -
Nation at Risk
Students are just going to school to be able to say that they did. The curriculum is not preparing them footer the globe market. There are more classes available to students, but less pertinent information. -
Charter Schools in Utah
Utah was the 34 starte to adopt the use of Charter and Magnet schools. The user of charter schools was to make the education of our students more competitive and raise the bar of education in Utah and elsewhere in the country. -
Amendment in Accountability
This amendment was added in 2004, to make school districts accountable for the testing scores of the students that they were teaching.
