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School and Society in American History: The First Hundred Years

Chapter 7. School and Society in American History: The First Hundred Years. Regionally diverse by religion, economics, social organization

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School and Society in American History: The First Hundred Years

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  1. Chapter 7 School and Society in American History: The First Hundred Years

  2. Regionally diverse by religion, economics, social organization • Common theme of education to strengthen morality, assist the growing economy, preserve the social order…a rationale far more practical than intellectualhttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/british_colonies_1763-76.jpg Education in Colonial and Early America

  3. I think schooling is most important to Rake the scholars from the rubbish Educate the many, but not too much

  4. I believe Satan is An outdated superstitious idea Active in the affairs of humans A working metaphor

  5. Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647…every town of 50 or more families to have a primary school and 100 or more families to have a Latin Grammar Schoolhttp://www.coe.uga.edu/sdpl/historyofedarchitecture/historyofedarchitecture_files/image002.jpg New England

  6. By 1683 anyone with children under their guidance who had not learned to read and write by age twelve or learned a useful trade, was finedhttp://www.historycooperative.org/journals/cp/vol-02/no-03/school/images/primer.gif New England

  7. Dame schools • Primers…reading books to advance literacy and moral and religious lessons http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/historians/images/kaestle4.jpg New England

  8. New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania…diversity of churches and languages and schools • Schools of Pennsylvania often taught in German…also many parochial schools run by Quakers http://www.fwbo-news.org/uploaded_images/mitraloka_school_languages-771511.jpg Mid-Atlantic Colonies

  9. Children of the plantation often had tutors, sometimes boarding schoolshttp://judicial-inc.biz/j_hist1.jpg Southern Colonies

  10. Sons of wealthy landowners often schooled in England or Europe Females often were taught the womanly arts Poor whites and all African Americans unschooled Southern Colonies

  11. Northwest Ordinance of 1785 required the Midwestern territories to set aside a section of land for education purposes…each township had a one-room school Conscious effort to create a separate, American culture http://images.virtualology.com/images/4938.jpg Growth of the Nation

  12. Noah Webster…the Blue Backed Speller and Dictionary • Emphasis on the practical and the moral… “you must seek rather to be good than wise.” • Limited “book learning”http://foolswisdom.com/users/sbett/blue-backed-spellingbook1857.gif Growth of the Nation

  13. Horace Mann…to create a system of common schools that are available, equal, and with an “educational purpose truly common to all.” • Utopian period of transcendentalists, abolitionists, feminists, reconstructionistshttp://www.mackinac.org/media/images/2005/v2005-17a.jpg The Common School

  14. School arguments appealed to “pocketbook” rationales: economic prosperity and social order • “Education beyond all other devices of human origin is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” • Non-sectarian Christianity…values common to all Christians The Common School

  15. Upgraded preparation for teachers, state funded post secondary institutions to train elementary teachers • First normal school in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1839http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/English/exhibits/education/pics/20881_prctice_tching_520.jpg Normal Schools

  16. Age-based grades Special preparation for principal teachers The “egg crate” school building The feminization of teaching…nurturing rather than mastery Normal Schools

  17. Amendment XIII abolishing slavery Amendments XIV and XV granting African American males the rights and privileges of white males But not the right to an equal or adequate educationhttp://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Images/15th.jpg Separate and Unequal

  18. Plessy v. Ferguson http://www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/antebellum/images/plessy.jpg?Log=0 Separate and Unequal

  19. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/images/people/washington_bt-lc.jpg http://www.africanamericanstudies.buffalo.edu/ANNOUNCE/niagaramovement/harpers/duboisportrait.jpg Separate and Unequal

  20. Abigail Adams to husband John in 1776 For women who did not marry and were financially independent, with Industrialization came new schools and academies for women Emma Hart Willard…turn pampered women’s minds to social responsibility and good works 1848, Seneca Falls 1859, reliable condomshttp://www.nwhm.org/images/Education/Emma%20Willard.jpg “Remember the Ladies”

  21. 1890, National American Women’s Suffrage Association 1920, XIX Amendment, the right to vote 1972, Title IX of ESEA http://www.virtualstampclub.com/images/19thamend20.jpg “Remember the Ladies”

  22. Several hundred treaties with Native American nations…including provisions for schooling The goal of Christianizing the “savages” Carlisle Indian Industrial Schoolhttp://clarke.cmich.edu/indian/inschl.gif Cultural Replacement: the Education of Native Americans

  23. Indian Reorganization Act of 1934…moving toward a “new deal” 1975, Indian Self-Determination and Education act http://si.unm.edu/bern_2003/milano/milano_tl/1930.jpg Cultural Replacement: the Education of Native Americans

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