4. Development Of Education In The
United States
The public school movement in
the middle of the 19th century
The progressive nature in the
early 20th century
The last generation fermentaso
movement
6. Colonial America
• European immigrants to Colonial America
brought their culture, traditions and
philosophy about education.
• The English were the predominant settlers in
the new world and as a result education in
colonial america was patterned on the english
model.
7. Education in the Revolutionary Era
• As the American colonies continued to grow
and prosper, the european tradition that had
previously guided the development of school
and education began to lose some of their
influence.
• A standard curriculum was difficult to achieve
in a country as large and sparsely populated as
the new United States of America
8. Education for African and Native
Americans
• As mentioned earlier, the Native American
population had little or no influence on the
development of educational practice in the
United States and very little effort was extended
to formally educate them during the 18th and
early 19th centuries
9. The Rise of Common School
• The first public secondary school was established
in Boston in 1821 and marked the beginning of
this long and slow struggle to achieve public
funding.
• Horace Mann (1796-1859) was the one of the
strongest proponents for public education and the
common school.
10. • As the common school movement continued to
grow, the settlement of the territory in what is
now the western United States encouraged the
development of higher education to better
meet the needs of a growing and more diverse
population.
11. Compulsory Education
• Compulsory school attendance laws were first
passed in Massachusetts in 1852 and invariably
spread to other sections of the country.
• By 1900, thirty-two states had passed
compulsory education laws and by 1930 all the
states had some form of this law in place.
Subsequently the numbers of children receiving
an education increased dramatically.
12. • As the number of students grew, the need also
increased for a more efficient method of
administration, school leaders turned to big
business to provide a model of scientific
management to effectively manage these
resources.
13. Educating the Culturally
Diverse
Native and African Americans were not allowed
access to most public schools and institutions of
higher learning
The newly assimilated children
15. The Progressive Era of Education
• John Dewey (1859-1952) was the most prominent of
the progressive educators. He wrote extensively
about the need for teachers to understand the child.
• Maria Montessori (1870-1952) learned to appreciate
the quality of human potential. She was the first
Italian woman who graduated from medical school.
Montessori, believed that children should be
instructed according to where they were
developmentally.
16. • Following World War II, the population of the
United States increased dramatically.
• As the numbers of school children grew, the
demand for facilities and teachers also increased.
• The reform movement in education was also
characterized by a new curricular emphasis.
17. • The educational focus for the nineties has
been primarily directed at school reform. For
the most part teachers have risen to the
occasion, taking on roles of leadership and
leading the way into the 21st century.