- 13 colonies still under British Rule until the 1770's
- American Revolution started with the continental congress declaring independence in 1775 Ending in 1783
- Articles of Confederation gave way to the Constitution
- Bill of Rights adopted into Constitution
- Women not given equal rights to public education
- Slavery was legal
- Baroque to Classical Eraa
"The public school is the greatest discovery made by man."
- Horace Mann
History of Education in America
Education
Important Events
Important Laws
Historical Context 20th century
Historical Context 18th Century
Education
- Republican Motherhood
- Introduction of "Normal Schools" in 1823
- One Room Schoolhouses
- Horace Mann reforms schools
- Compulsory Schooling Laws
- Public schools introduced
- Segregation in public schools
- Religion removed from state funded schools
- Tuskeegee first black normal school
- Singing societies developed to pursue higher levels of music education
- Pestalozzian Schools for music
- 1727 Ursuline Academy of New Orleans is founded
- Benjamin Franklin advocates for Secularism in public schools
- Revolutionary War
- Noah Webster writes "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language"
- Thomas Jefferson proposes a new 2 track system "the laboring and the learned"
- Young Ladies Academy opens as first school for girls in the colonies
- 2 Track system - Upper and Lower Class
- Lower class only taught basic reading and Writing
- Upper class taught basics and Greek or Latin to prepare for college
- Little to no formal education for Women
- Religion tied into schools
- Colleges only for Ministers
- Apprenticeship was main method of teaching in specialized fields
- Church was the main dispenser of Music Education
Fair Labor Standards act - No Child Left Behind Act
Indian Education act - Title IX
Rehabilitation Act - Vocational Education Act (PL 105-332)
Refugee act of 1980 - Refugee Education Assistance Act
The Education Of All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142)
IDEA (PL 101-476) - Minnesota Charter School Law
Improving America's Schools Act
Massachusetts Education Reform Act
- State Childrens Health Insurance Program
- Great Society Programs & War on Poverty
- Space Race
- Civil Rights Movement
- World War I ,World War II, Cold War, and Vietnam War
- Roaring 20's and Great Depression
- Womens Sufferage
- Romantic Era to Twentieth Century Music
Choose a major change made in education and explain how it impacts your school life.
Would you change it? Why or why not?
https://fee.org/articles/education-in-colonial-america/
http://www.eds-resources.com/educationhistorytimeline.html#1600
Writing Activity
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/ed416/ae1.html
Important Education Cases
Education
Historical Context 19th Century
Important Events
Historical Context 17th Century
Important Information
Board of Education V Pico - Edwards V Aguillard
Milliken V Bradely
Wallace V Jaffree - Pyler V Doe - Lau V Nichols
Mills V Board of Education for Washington D.C.
Brown V Board of Education
Everson V Board
Tennessee V John Scopes
- 1635 First Free school in Virginia opens
- 1635 First Latin Grammar School Boston Latin School
- 1636 Harvard Established as first school of higher learning
- 1642 Massachusetts Bay School Law
- 1693 John Locke's "Some Thoughts Concerning Education"
- One Room schoolhouses Rural comunities
- Secondary school became required
- Junior High schools created
- Large growth in school population due to "Baby Boomers"
- "Seperate but equal" Deemed Unconstitutional
- Large Increase in funding for STEM programs
- ESEA gives all students a right to educaiton
- Special education and inclusion
- Segregation in schools phased out
- Music Instruction became a official part of Public Schools
- Industrialization
- Expansion to the west
- Civil War
- Assasination of Abraham Lincoln
- Beggining of reconstruction
- Hardvard law school founded
- Missouri Comprimise
- Population of the U.S. Passes 50 Million
- Classical to Romantic Era
- In 1607 the first permanant english settlement (Jamestown) was founded
- Colonies developed under British rule
- Wars erupted between colonists, French, British, and Native Americans
- Womens rights did not change significantly
- Slavery Introduced into colony of Virginia
- Higher education started to come to the Americas
- Salem Witch Trials
- Baroque Era
- Education and Religion still intertwined
- Books were reprinted in the U.S.
- Southern states started to move education from the house to formal schools and Universities
- Benjamin Franklin Advocated for public schools
- Higher education institutions on the rise
- Racial and Gender divide still present in education
- First Singing school established in Boston in 1717 stimulating movement of music instruction into public schools
- 1801 Modern Blackboard Invented
- 1837 Horace Mann becomes secretary of education and starts reforms
- Civil Rights Act starts equal opprotunity schooling
- Plessy Vs Ferguson makes "Seperate but Equal" legal
- First practical fountain pen created
- 1857 National Teachers Association founded (Now the National Education Association)