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Thomas Jefferson proposes 3 free years of education
Thomas Jefferson on Public EducationAlthough Jefferson's legislation for three free years of education for children, proposed in 1978, did not pass, it voiced a unique but prophetic concern for the education of our country. Driving this legislation was thebeleif that the success and longevity of our country depending on the advanced knowldge of future generation. Although the legislation only promised three years of education, it included an extension of that education for boys who proved themselves as promising scholars. -
The Northwest Ordinance of 1785
The History Of Federal Government In Public Education: Where Have We Been And How Did We Get Here? Included in the Northwest Ordinance of 1785 was a provision that any new state-settlement would have to establish a University, building on the earlier ideas of Jefferson. As a result of the Ohio Unversity was formally established in 1804 -
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Monitorial Schools in America
The Lancasterian Monitorial System of Education this system of education grouped the more expert students with the less knowledgable or skilled one; the effect was mass education at lower cosyts because the students were essentially teaching the students; it was replaced by the more modern system of expert lecturers, but continues to be revisted today as we find flaws with modern teaching. -
Horace Mann appointed as MA Secretary of Education
Horace Mann & Education Reform: Contributions & Philosophy Horace Mann was a pivitol character in American Education. Although he had little experience in Education (a trained lawyer), he uniquely too his appointment to Secretary of Education seriously and traveled to each school to check out the conditions and system. Appalled by what he saw, he established the common school. -
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MOST IMPORTANT!!! Common Schools
Common Schools Era Started by Horace Mann, this system called on tax payers' dollars to fun free schooling for students; it was meant to equal the playing field in education among poor and rich; in part, it did aways with corporal punishment. This change had been in the works for some time and seems one of the most significant moments in history as it acknowledges education as a human right. -
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Progressive Education Period
A Brief Overview of Progressiver Education The Progressive Era moved the educational focus from who you were to what you could; it worked to expand education for all (women, minorities) and implemented secondary (high school) for all; everyone was prepared for college, even if they didnt go to college -
Committee of Ten
Committee of TenCommittee of Ten
this committee, made up of educators, was repsonsible for the first college-preparation high school curriculum that grew out of the progressive movement. Before this, U.S. HSs had very different approaches to teaching and assessing. Among the suggestions made were, (1) higher qualifying educators, (2) all children be taught in the same way. -
Wirt implements the Gary Plan
Gary Plan Influenced by the philosophies of Dewey, Wirt created this plan in Indiana, also known as the work-study-play plan. It incorporated all aspects of life. Resistence to it came when parents thought their children were only being educated for blue-collar factory jobs. -
Terman pubished the revised Intelligence Test in the U.S.
History of Intelligence Testing Terman adapted the Stanford-Binet IQ test in 1916 and revised twice more in the next 50 years. He believed that intelligence was inherited and also dependent on schooling. Before it's involvment in education, It was used in military to decide what individuals would be placed in which roles. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case that mandated desgregation across the U.S. Although some states had already begun the end of segregation, many other states were slow and/or resisant to implementation. Eventually military had to step in to ensure it happened. Many would argue we still have not reached its promise. Building on Mann's suggestion that education is a human right, this decision redefined human. -
National Defence Education Act of 1958
Sputnik Left Legacy for U.S. Science Education After Sputnik, Americans featred the USSR was raising better scientists than we were, so this act was the response to that fear. We has also produced a distrubingly low number of mathemeticians that year. It gave four years of federal funding to programs in the sciences. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Elementary & Secondary Education Act 1965 As a former educator, LBJ believed every choild had a right to education and a good life, so this act was meant to ensure that. Amonf the significant changes it made were (1) Title I funding, and (2) head start.It was amended in 1968 to include the bilingual education act. To me, this was one of the most exciting events on the timeline, as it is a modern moment of again leeling the playing field, as Mann had done. -
"A Nation at Risk" Report
NEA Today
a report produced by the Reagan administration arguing that our educations system was dismal. Recommendations included, (1 higher pay for teachers, (2) raising college admission expectations. In some ways this was a turning point for education in that decision in and around education and especially curriculum became reactionary to the criticism of the report. -
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The Standards Movement
Overview of The Standards Movement In the wake of "A Nation at Risk" report, many efforts were made to standarize teaching. The primary categories were academic, content, performance. NCLB is part of this movement. -
No Choild Left Behind Signed Into Law
No Child Left Behind The Bush administration took the inspirational model of the LBJ administration and turned it into law. It asserts that each state needs to have measureable standards and standardized test assessment.
