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Traditional education, also known as back-to-basics, conventional education or customary education, refers to long-established customs that society has traditionally used in schools. Some forms of education reform promote the adoption of progressive education practices, and a more holistic approach which focuses on individual students' needs ...
The Oneida Institute of Science and Industry (founded 1827) was the first institution of higher education to routinely admit African-American men and provide mixed-race college-level education. [130] Oberlin College (founded 1833) was the first mainly white, degree-granting college to admit African-American students. [ 131 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. Education in the United States of America National education budget (2023-24) Budget $222.1 billion (0.8% of GDP) Per student More than $11,000 (2005) General details Primary languages English System type Federal, state, local, private Literacy (2017 est.) Total 99% Male 99% Female 99% ...
The Great Transformation in Higher Education, 1960–1980. (State U. of New York Press, 1991). 383 pp. Levine, D. O. The American college and the culture of aspiration, 1915–1940. (1986). Lucas, Christopher J. American higher education: A history. (1994). Miller, Howard. The Revolutionary College. American Presbyterian Higher Education 1707 ...
The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783. (1970); American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876.
A more traditional view of classical education arises from the ideology of the Renaissance, advocating an education grounded in the languages and literatures of Greece and Rome. The lengthy, rigorous training period required to learn Greek and Latin has been abandoned by most American schools in favor of more contemporary subjects.
Liberal arts education (from Latin liberalis 'free' and ars 'art or principled practice') [1] is a traditional academic course in Western higher education. [2] Liberal arts takes the term art in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the fine arts .
The education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 (U of North Carolina Press, 2010). online; Bond, Horace Mann. Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel (1939). online, a famous classic; Bullock, Henry Allen. A history of Negro education in the South: From 1619 to the present (Harvard UP, 1967). online