Timeline: The History of American Education

Timeline: The History of American Education
Theme
Colonial Era
(1620-1750)
Religion
1.
Purpose of
Education?
2.
For Who?
White males
3.
Curriculum?
New England
Primer
4.
Teacher
Philosophy?
5.
Laws?
6.
Technology?
7.
Schedule?
8.
Misc
Perennialism
Old Deluder Satan
Act
Post-Revolution
(1750-1820)
Societal values
(religion) and
academic skills
(2Rs)
White males and
females (lower
education only)
Webster’s English
Language Book
Morse’s Geography
Made Easy
Perennialism
Essentialism
Northwest
Ordinance
Common Schools
(1820-1865)
Educate mass public
in academic skills
(3Rs) and Societal
values
White males and
females (lower
education only)
McGuffey Reader: 6
Volumes for Virtues
Public Schools
(1865-1965)
Prepare students to
function in society
through academic
skills
White male/female
(other cultures
assimilated)
Dick and Jane
Readers
Today’s Schools
(1965-Present)
Prepare students to
function in society
through academic skills
All races/genders
No Child Left Behind
(3Rs)
Future Schools
(In 50 years)
What will be the
purpose of
education 50 years
from now?
Who will schools
be for?
What will we
teach?
Standards Based
Perennialism
Essentialism
Progressivism
Pragmaticism
1820 – First public
school
1822 – Hawaiian
alphabet
1893-Overthrow of
Hawaiian
government
One room school
house
Blackboard invented
1809
1840 – First public
school in Hawaii –
Lahainaluna, (all in
Hawaiian lang)
Blackboard used
extensively (1820)
Year round
Year round
Year round
Educational system
not mentioned in
constitution
Normal Schools
established, female
teachers recruited
1896-Public schools
– English only
Blackboard, TV
Summers off
doctors thought
school overtaxing
and rural/urban
together
1883 First grade
given, “B” Harvard
Univ based on
0-100 points
Existentialism
Social Reconstructionism
Postmodernism
Religion Laws
How will we
teach?
What laws will we
need?
Equality Laws (Brown
vs. BOE; Title IX
Disabilities Laws (IDEA,
Section 504)
Blackboard, TV, video,
computer, internet,
whiteboard, podcasting,
youtube
Flexible schedules,
summers off, year round
1984 Punana Leo
Hawaiian immersion
schools
What technology
will we use?
What schedule will
school follow?

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