Jennifer Vazquez

EDU 201 2002

10-3-2015

Timeline

1600’s
Schools:

• Colonial schools,
• Parochial schools,
The diversity was Swedish, Irish, Dutch and Germans
• Dame schools were ran by widows and house wives. Initially for boys but only schooling
for girls, they were taught homemaking skills and sewing which only lasted a few weeks
to year.
• Reading and writing schools for boys to get an education beyond what their parents had
but were really religious.
• Latin grammar schools were for boys ages 7 to 8 years old. Grammar schools were 7 year
schools after they were able to 4 years of school. The teachings in grammar schools were
higher than in the reading and writing schools. ( no school for African American and
native American)
➢ Important laws- Massachusetts Act of 1642
➢ Universal compulsory Education ( church and civic leaders decided school was no
longer voluntary, if not followed parents were fined or lose custody)
➢ Massachusetts Act of 1647

Education Focus:

✓ Colonial schools, basic reading and writing so students could learn the scriptures.
Discipline was strict
✓ Parochial schools were based on religious beliefs, they primary focused on education to
be able to promote religion and prepare children to attend college in Europe
✓ Dame schools focused on essentials of reading, writing, math, and basic homemaking
skills

Events: Massachusetts act of 1642 and 1647

1700’s
People:
o Benjamin Franklin
 o Sarah Pierce
o Noah Webster
o Elias Neau
o Thomas Jefferson
o Anthony Benezet

Schools:

• Benjamin Franklin Academy (Philadelphia academy)

• Sarah Pierce Female academy taught girls homemaking skills
• Philadelphia school for African American and Native American
➢ Important Laws: North West Ordinance 1785 &1789
Land space to build schools for education

Education focus: Practical knowledge and skills there was still religion involved but there was
more of a focus in math, English grammar, agriculture, shipping and commerce

Text: Elementary spelling book- Noah Webster

Events: American Revolution 1776

Schools for minorities

1800’s
Common schools- public elementary school

1821: Troy seminary first women’s college by Emma Willard

1821: The first state supported High school (Boston Englisa classical school)

1824: Public Grammar school is opened

1827: Massachusetts requires families to move in order to go to public schools

1837: First kindergarten class created

1837: Horace Mann is the first secretary of a State Board of Education, he lead free public
schools

1839: First public normal school is open in Lexington, Massachusetts

1849: Electa Lincoln Walton became acting head administrator and the first woman to
administer a state normal school
1850: First official ground for segregation

1852: Massachusetts enacts mandatory attendance

1857: National Education Association was founded

1862: Morrill Land Grant Act

1865: African American Leaders in Georgia formed an education association to raise money and
to supervise schools

1869: 64% of 5-7 year olds went to public schools

1879: Susan Blow establishes public kindergarten classes

1892: Schools get 9 subjects in school for high school

1896: Plessy vs. Ferguson- segregation of African American and white

Books and Texts: Noah’s Webster’s spelling book, American dictionary, Mc Guffey readers

1900-1950
1900: Compulsory Education passed in 32 states

1902: Johns Dewey’s Laboratory School bloomed in a school in Chicago

1909-1915: Ella Flagg Young

• Reorganization of secondary education starts 1913

1918: Cardinal Principles of Education

1919: Progressive Education Association was founded.

1930: Compulsory Education passed in all states

1930-1940: Progressive Education movement

Willard Waller (1932) Jane Addams

1941: Lanham Act federal money going into schools

1944: G.I. Bill of Rights funds military personal to go to school

National Events: From the end of the civil war to the end of WWI

Support for public schools grew. Attendance in schools was higher than ever.
The legacy of the civil war, emancipation meant schools for former slaves.

Ideas of progressivism

The demands for teacher meant more women in the field ever before.

Text: Willard Walter “The sociology of teaching (1932)”

Jane Adams “Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)”

Darwin’s “Origin of Species”

1950’s- Present
1950: Desegregation (1954, Brown vs. Board of Education) separate but equal was illegal

1957: USSR Launches “Sputnik” Launched science and math education. Sputnik was the first
rocket to space

1958: National Defense Education Act

1960: War on poverty, curriculum reform

1965: Elementary and secondary education act (federal funding)

1968: Bilingual act (title 7) federal aid to provide bilingual education to students who need it

Progressive and Humanistic

Head start equal opportunity

1970: Title IX of education amendments act (passed in 1972) federal funding to create female
programs, made universal

1972: Indian Education Act- federal funding to build schools on reservation or near them

1975: Education for all handicapped children act

1980: Education reform movement

Era of “teacher bashing”

1983: National Commission on excellence in education

1990: Teacher Leadership, greater diversity, teachers as leaders, greater international completion,
equal access to Educational
Federal government involved to get adequate technology and resources

2000 (present) No Child Left Behind Act 2001

2010: Race to the top and teacher leader Innovation fund (Obama)

2013: Common Core: (math and English) to have the same learning skills based on grade level