History of American Education, by Adam and Drew
Category: Otro
Actualizado: 9 may 2019
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Created byAdam Graham-Silverman
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Schooling at Independence. Average schooling was less than 82 days.New England Primer: First published and dominant schoolbook for decades.Blue Back Speller published: Taught "American" including language distinctions from BritishJefferson drafts proposal for 3 years of schooling for all children. Between 1779 and 1817 it came up for votes three times and was defeated each time.University of Virginia chartered by Jefferson. First public university.Nearly half of New York City residents are foreign born. Many were Catholic, but public schools had Protestant bent.Philadelphia bible riots: Anti-Catholic, spurred by religious feuds over schools.Boston Petition: 90 African Americans drew up a petition to end segregation in Boston schools. It was rejected.Mass. Supreme Court rejects case of John Roberts, an African American who sued the city to get his daughter into white schools.Mass. passes first-in-nation law abolishing segregation in public schoolsMcGuffey's Readers first published. They taught morality tales to children, especially in the West. Eventually sold 122 million copies."The School and Society," book by Dewey, attacks conventional education.World's Fair in Paris: Americans put their progressive schools on display.Wirt becomes superintendent of schools in Gary, Ind. Schools served all grades and kept students in motion. Schools had ponds, zoos, forges, auto mechanic shops and more.New York City enacts the "Gary Plan." Political opponents attacked the Gary Plan as a plot to churn out workers. Criticism of the plan leads to defeat of the mayor and its cancellation.Depression-era federal law to ban child labor sends many more children into schools and victim to biased tracking and testing.Educational Wastelands, by Arthur Bestor, published. Criticized progressive education as regressive and called for a return to basic subjects.The National Defense Ed Act sends federal money to schools for the first time. The law responds to the 1957 Sputnik launch with major investments in education, especially STEM.Julian Nava elected to Los Angeles school board. First Mexican-American on board, led fight to ban IQ tests.Períodos
Noah Webster: The "schoolmaster of America" designed American education as distinct from BritishThomas Jefferson: Founding Father who wanted all (white, male) Americans educatedHorace Mann: Crusader for public schools. He proposed a common school plan for all that would be funded with public dollars. It was strongly opposed.Horace Mann becomes Mass. Secretary of Education. He visits 1,000 schools and writes detailed reports on their condition. His agitating leads Mass. to set up public schools.John Hughes: Crusaded against religious discrimination in schools. Helped create national network of Catholic schools.Catharine Beecher: founded colleges to educate women teachers. Teaching as a profession for independent women.John Dewey: Father of progressive education.William Wirt: A Dewey disciple whose work-study-play system aimed to “make every working man a scholar and every scholar a working man” Educators from 200 American cities eventually adopt Wirt's system.Elwood P. Cubberly: Head of t he Department of Education at Stanford University. Initiated tracking of students, which led to rise of standardized tests.During World War I, the US Army gives the IQ test to 1.7 million recruits. It's later rolled out to millions of students in the 1920s.
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