History of American Education

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History of American Education
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The Grand Markers of perspective over the
Centuries
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Seventeenth Century
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• 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

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Eighteenth Century
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• hints of standardization (Noah Websters 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)

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Nineteenth Century
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• first public high school
• public high schools are required
• teacher training schools established
• kindergartens
• public land grant colleges

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

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

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

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Using the History of Education to study the
future
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