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HIstory of Education in America
This timeline includes 15 very important events in the progress of our nations education and public school system. -
Common Schools
The Common School movement took place in the 1830's.It was a movement to provide schools where children of all ages could have an equal chance at common knowledge. -
Sarah Roberts Case
This first case was important because it was one of the first major cases that pushed for integration in schools. Sarah Roberts was not allowed in any white schools because she was African American. This led her father to go against the city of Boston, and although they lost the case, more and more people began to see hope for integration. -
Frederick Douglas's Role in Education
Frederick Douglas was a very big advocate for education. He wanted everyone, especially minorities to have a chance to be education. He also encouraged no seperation in schools. -
Growth of Education After Civil War (1870-1890)
Education began to grow rapidly as the Westward Expansion was happening. Schools needed teachers, and Katherine Beacher highly encouraged young women to step up. This growth in education led to the idea that teachers should care for students, not just discipline them. -
The Committee of Ten
The Committee of Ten was a group of educators that worke dtogether to standardize curriculum. This led to increase of observation, memory, expression and reasoning problems in school, and everyone was supposed to learn the same main ideas. -
****The Impact of John Dewey**** MOST IMPORTANT (1859-1952)
John DeweyJohn Dewey was also known as "The Father of Progressive Education". He argued that children should learn by doing, and that schools should be concerned with the students social intellectual and emotional health. The most relevant idea he pushed for was that education should be relevant to students lives. We should strive for this idea today, to try and help our students apply the concepts we teach everyday. -
The Gary Plan
This took place in Gary, Indiana and was an idea of work, study, play. They offered many different classes for studnets that would help everyone, and kids seemed to enjoy school. -
The Impact of WWII (1939-1945)
The war changed education because so many people were serving or now needing jobs to support their families and they were as educated. This realization for the country helped promote intelligence, and standards, and also helped people come together to help with war effort. -
****Brown vs. Board of Education**** MOST IMPORTANT
History Channel: Brown vs. Board of EducationThis event was the tipper ont the civil rights movement. This case ruled that seperate but equal segragated schools were in fact, not equal and that schools would be integrated ASAP. This effets us still today as in our schools everyone is welcome, and there is no segregation. All students can be in the same classrooms together. -
****Civil Rights Movement**** MOST IMPORTANT
The Civil Rights MovementThe Civil Rights movement is still impacting us everyday. It was a movement for minorities to be equal and get equal rights. Minorities included different races, women, and unweatlthy men. The ruling was that if schools did not intgrate they would lose their federal funding. This made schools want to integrate so they could receive the funding they couldn't go without and get new subjects and more capable students. Today no matter the gender or race or economic status, students get equal edu. -
****The War On Poverty & LBJ's Legacy**** MOST IMPORTANT
The War on Poverty was a huge movement that help students in poverty. President Lyndon B. Johnson wanted to help break "the cycle of poverty" by lowering costs for the lower classes, and aide disadvantaged students. This impacts us today because in the classroom there will be students of all kinds of socioeconomic statuses. We need to remember this as we assign homework, tests, etc. and see how we can reach out and help them. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965)
This act allowed for students in poverty or low income families to be able to gain the same education as any other class. This provided resources needed to meet the needs of these children, and in turn help fight the war on poverty by education them. -
****Individuals with Disabilities in Edcuation Act**** MOST IMPORTANT
35 Years of IDEAThis act provided free, appropriate education in a non restricting enviroment to students wth disabilities. Students and students with disabilities were no longer seperated, they were all together in schools. These new standards provided hope and joy to many of the students with disabilities and their families. In our classrooms today we need to be aware that we have a variety of students with different abilities. -
Growth of Standardized Testing (1990-Present)
The Growth of Standardized Testing has really impacted schools and students alike. The tests provide a way of testing students quickly and cost effetively, and scores are easy to compare to other students and schools. But the tests have really called into question how accurate they are. This is a very hot topic right now, and one that needs to be discussed all the time. -
No Child Left Behind (2001)
While this act had good intentions, the effects have been strongly negative. Increased pressure on schools and teachers to get certain standardized test scores has changed the way schools work. Students are pressured to perform well on standardized tests, and if they don't pass a certain level, the level on the class goes down as a whole.
