CHAPTER 10 Collin College EDUC 1301 What is the History of American Education?

I. Chapter 10 – What is the History of American Education? A. Quick History Highlights B. Themes in American Public Education C. Video II. Homework Copyright by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved

 Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647 Town w/50 families = Hire reading/writing teacher Town w/100 families = Open grammar school  4 R’s - Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, & Religion  All children learned basics Boys went on to apprentice or academies Girls went to “Dame Schools” if available Copyright by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved

New England Dame schools Town and district schools –First forms of public schools Middle Colonies Diverse population Private venture schools –Earliest vocational education South Lack of formal education for many –Dispersed population –Social-class, racial distinctions Private tutoring for wealthy Copyright by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved

For  Democracy depends upon an educated populace  Common schools would promote a common American culture  Enhanced opportunities and general prosperity Against  Some citizens pay for schooling of others’ children  Weakened cultural identities of diverse groups  Concerns over religious teachings in schools Copyright by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved

 Latin Grammar Schools  English Grammar Schools  Academies  Public High Schools  Comprehensive High Schools Copyright by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved

 Local control  Universal education  Public education  Comprehensive education  Secular education  Changing ideas of the basics  Expanding definitions of educational access and equality Copyright by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved

 Objective – Peer-teaching of themes in American Public Education  Divide into equal groups (Expert Groups)  Become an expert in ONE theme  Reconfigure into groups that contain one expert from EACH expert group.  Experts teach the group about their theme Copyright by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved

 Selected video excerpts from this history of the teacher in American public education. Copyright by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved

Copyright by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved HOMEWORK  Positive Classroom Paper  Read Chapter 11  Read Chapter 12  Philosophy Paper