History of American Education

1. 1 of 12 History of American Education

2. 2 of 12 The Grand Markers of perspective over the Centuries

3. 3 of 12 Seventeenth Century • private education • religious and secular • Harvard, the first higher education • the first mandated public education • the first American (non-native) textbook • New England Primer (100 years w/o revision) - 1690

4. 5 of 12 Eighteenth Century • hints of standardization (Noah Webster’s American Spelling Book: the Blue-backed speller, appeared in 1783) • private secondary education • major influence of religion on education continues • a national policy requiring land for educational purposes (Northwest Ordinance Acts)

5. 7 of 12 Nineteenth Century • first public high school • public high schools are required • teacher training schools established • kindergartens • public land grant colleges

6. 9 of 12 Twentieth Century • discovery of the child • first public junior college • funds for education of the poor (New Deal)

7. 10 of 12 Twentieth Century (Post World War II) • GI Bill and vast expansion of higher education • National Defense Education Act to improve the sciences • Job Corps • alternative education

8. 11 of 12 Twentieth Century (Post World War II) (cont.) • Federal aid to public schools • education for all (94-142) • attempts to legislate quality • endless reform

9. 12 of 12 Using the History of Education to study the future