Contributions of the Era (Early)—Deb Kindrat & Angela Bosch
Purpose of
Education
Significant Contributions
Significant
People
Text
Who is
educated
Enable large
#’s of people
to read the
Bible
1)Massachusetts School Law of 1642: charged
local magistrates with the responsibility of
ensuring that parents would not neglect the
education of their children. (1st attempt at
making school attendance compulsory.)
Boys
2)”Old Deluder Satan Act” of 1647: represented
an early legislative attempt to establish the
principle of public responsibility for education.
3)Boston Latin Grammar School: had a specific
purpose of preparing boys for Harvard; the
introduction of secondary schools.
4) Roxbury Latin School opened–first free
schooling that was offered to children
5)Harvard in Cambridge-first American College
established
6) Children aged 6-8 attended a "Dame
school" where the teacher, who was usually a
widow, taught reading.
John Calvin—
Leader of the
Reformation
Textbook pages 313-316
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N.Y
Merchants –
Private
schools that
prepared
young people
for roles in
business and
trade.
Pennsylvania
Quakers—
Maintained
schools that
were open to
all children.
Boys of all
races and
religions.
1)Pennsylvania Quakers were notable for their
willingness to recognize the educational needs
and rights of African Americans, Native
Americans, and other minority groups not
allowed to attend school.
2)The Franklin Academy: An institution that was
nonsectarian and offered subjects such as
math, astronomy, navigation, and bookkeeping. It
replaced the Boston Latin Grammar School as
being the most important secondary school in
America. It also set the pattern of elective
courses.
3)Private Academies became popular and helped
establish these precedents for American
Education:
a. Education would have a strong orientation
toward the practical rather than the purely
intellectual or theoretical.
b. Education would be nonsectarian.
c. Education would feature diverse course
offerings.
Benjamin
Franklin and
William Penn—
Introduced
schools without
religion
Text book pages 316-317
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Creating
college-bred
elite—often
sent to
England
schools for
this to be
accomplished.
1)By 1850, over 6,000 academies in operation.
2)1821: Boston English Classical School—First
established public high school.
3)# of public high schools surpassed the # of
academies.
4)Nations first normal school, an institution
designed to train people to teach was
established.
Restricted to
children
(sons) of
wealthy
family
landowners.
Little
schooling was
available to
children of
less affluent
families.
5)50.6% of the nation’s children were enrolled in
public school programs.
6) National Department of Education is
established as part of the Federal Government.
Horace Mannthe first
secretary of the
first State Board
of Education,
created in
Massachusetts in
1837.
Textbook pages 317-320
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