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There has been a lot of different changes to schools and its education during the 1800's, for example a man named James Pillans invented the blackboard that even today teachers use.
There was more support for national military academies, and the first institution was established in 1802 at West Point. The U.S. Naval Academy was followed in and established in 1845, and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1876. Thomas Jefferson, was an advocate for free schools under local supervision. Jefferson was the prime founder of a great state college in his own state, the University of Virginia.
The first public high school opens in Boston in 1821 and its the name of the school is Boston English High School, and The state of Massachusetts also passes a law requiring towns of more than 500 families to have a public high school open to all students.
In 1867 the famous Howard University is established in Washington D.C. to provide education for the African American youth. Christopher Sholes invents the modern typewriter, which is known as the Sholes Glidden, it is first manufactured by E. Remington & Sons in 1873.
The American system of education has gone through so many dramatic transformations since its origins in the 1600s, reflecting changes in the social and cultural life of the nation.
In 1817 the Connecticut Asylum at Hartford had open for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons. It is the first permanent school for the deaf in the U.S.
The Bill of Rights is passed in 1791 and although education is not mentioned, the Tenth Amendment says that education becomes a function of the state rather than the federal government.
Noah Webster was unsatisfied with English textbooks of the day, and decided to publish a book a for the English Language that consisted of three volumes: a spelling book, a grammar book, and a reader. It was renamed later to the American Spelling Book. This change in textbooks established the American English language in all American education.
School buildings were among the first institutions built by the colonists. They were outranked in importance only by homes and houses of worship.
The Father of Education Mr. Mann, had targeted public school problems and concerns by creating a better and safer learning environment. He convinced the state to double its school budgets and raise teacher salaries. His plans for education were to increase the daily attendance for a school year, and began teacher training programs.
The future of Education is really based off what kind of technology comes out in the next 10 years.
Teachers will soon depend on technology and only technology to basicly do everything and anything that has to do with teaching.
The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declares that every town of fifty families should have an elementary school and that every town of 100 families should have a Latin school.
In 1636 Harvard College, the first higher education institution in what is now the United States, is established in New-towne, Massachusetts, named Harvard College. In 1638 the first printing press in the Colonies is set up at the College, and in 1640 Henry Dunster becomes President of Harvard. He teaches all the courses himself.
The goal is to ensure that Puritan children learn to read the Bible and receive basic information about their own religion.
The first free school in Virginia opens. However, education in the Southern colonies is more typically provided at home by parents or tutors.
Although early Americans were often influenced by European philosophy, by the time of the Revolution, schools were working to break that tradition Nonetheless, American colonists did respect fine English minds.
The first New England Primer is printed in Boston in 1690 and it becomes the most used schoolbook in the american colonies. Eight years later The first public library in the U.S. was also established in Charles Town, South Carolina. Two years later, South Carolina passes the first public library law.
All educational teaching was a type of religious instruction, and the it was clear that it was to preserve the Puritan culture and to keep all followers worship god and to be disciplined.
The colony began in 1647 to require by law secondary schools in the larger cities, as part of an effort to insure the basic literacy and religious inculcation of all citizens.
According with Wikipedia Education is general sense or a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research.
Some of the children that were unable to attend formal schools, received an education with heavy lessons on the Greek and Roman classics from male tutors.
As America's population grew, as well as the transportation grew, one-room common schools began closing in favor of the establishment of larger elementary schools for grades one through eight.
The first public community college in the US, was called Joliet Junior College and it was located in Joliet, Illinois.
Broadcasting music education programs on the radio, was one of the first uses of audio for education. This laid the foundation for many teaching technologies that are used today.
All states by 1919 had laws to provide funds and taxes for public transportation of children for school.
The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) was first administered in 1926. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board. This test is intended to see if a student's readiness is fit for college.
In the start of the 19nth Century paper and pencils became more available and eventually replaced the old school supplies. Later in the year, about 1940 that the ballpoint pen started to go worldwide as being a useful tool in the classroom and life in general. Making both the pencil and pen easier to write.
In 1998 before the Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up a workplace for their newly incorporated search engine in a Menlo Park, California garage. Google later became a strong force in the education technology movement as most schools in the 21st century use Google software.
In the early years of schooling, the focus was to develop basic interpersonal communication and literature skills in order to have the ability to learn more complex skills and subjects. After acquiring these basic abilities, education is commonly focused towards individuals gaining knowledge and skills to improve their own abilities and to create value and a livelihood for themselves and each other.
In the late 1920's the government began to have a law that required all states open a free public school through elementary.
Seseme Street was created for children so that would do something good with them, such as helping young children prepare for school. The show was so successful that it is still being aired today.
According to the national education center, In 2003 was the first time we used Internet in the classrooms and only in school was it used.
The Government should provide education to make sure equal educational opportunity is available for everyone. Force parents who might go against their own children's education, but to then send their children to school. Make education affordable for everyone, and for everything the school needs. Help and create a common social class where all are respected and accepted, no matter what kind race or religion.
The iClicker was one of the first tools to allow teachers to be able to quickly poll students and get results in time. Its effectiveness as a teaching tool worked for many, and more and more powerful classroom technologies to be follow, all aimed at making education a more interactive.
The iPad is a slate computer with the ability to bring many technologies within each other for learning in a new, very powerful way. The iPad's price, power and ease of use pushed its adoption in many schools where each student receives an iPad instead of a textbook. Learning on this format is much more interactive and personal than a traditional textbook.
We can all see now that everyone agrees to the fact that education should be the main concern of the government because without it there's no development on the population and we would not have a powerful country for us to live in.
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was approved by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on January 8, 2002. This law reauthorizes and or mandates high-stakes student testing, holds schools accountable for student achievement levels, and provides penalties for schools that do not make adequate yearly progress toward meeting the goals of the Act of itself.
They say the government shapes its people to become productive and efficient by educating them. Education is the most important element and that’s why the government should have a say in some form of education and provide it with what it has to offer.
The Higher Education Act was created and authorized and required institutions and states to produce report cards about teacher and student education performance. This was one more of many attempts to create a more unified education experience throughout the United States, and worldwide.
James Madison was a champion who found a great national university, but the money and considerable energies put the national university on such a bad institution, and it failed to overcome those who thought the founding of schools were for individual states to oversee rather than the federal government.
Here is a short video from YouTube of how Education has helped us worldwide
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