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For much of the 20th century, the dominant historiography, as exemplified by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1868–1941) at Stanford, emphasized the rise of American education as a powerful force for literacy, democracy, and equal opportunity, and a firm basis for higher education and advanced research institutions. Cubberley argued that the ...
Throughout the history of public education in the US, public schools have filled multiple roles. These roles are an outgrowth of why public schools came into being and how they have evolved. This publication briefly reviews that history.
In 1600s and 1700s America, prior to the first and second Industrial Revolutions, educational opportunity varied widely depending on region, race, gender, and social class. Public education, common in New England, was class-based, and the working class received few benefits, if any.
Key Takeaways. Until very recently in the record of history, formal schooling was restricted to wealthy males. The rise of free, compulsory education was an important development that nonetheless has been criticized for orienting workers in the 19th century to be disciplined and to obey authority.
From these beginnings, education in America has grown and expanded into the thousands of institutions that today educate people of all ages. Read on to learn about the origins of America’s first schools and the key people and events that helped to grow American education into what it is today.
These textbooks provide a comprehensive overview of the social, philosophical, historical, and economic foundations of education in the United States. The most noteworthy and widely used textbooks in the field are Mondale 2002, Urban and Wagoner 2008, Spring 2011, and Tozer, et al. 2012.
This collection of primary documents serves as a miniature archive on the history of American higher education since World War II, covering an assortment of topics: from the liberal arts and graduate study to the academic profession, academic freedom, and the rights of students.
Compulsory education in America arguably originated with Massachusetts’s legislative acts of 1642, 1647, and 1648; the 1642 act compelled education of children.
September 22, 2020 11:00 AM EDT. E ven before the United States had a Constitution, its founders were advocating for the creation of public education systems. The United States was an experiment...
American Education: A History, Sixth Edition is a comprehensive, highly regarded history of American education from precolonial times to the present. Chronologically organized, it provides an objective overview of each major period in the development of American education, setting the discussion against the broader backdrop of national and ...