1. The Continuing Historical Effort to Improve Education
Chapter 8

2. The Changing Aims of Education
Committee of Ten (1892)…high schools should be grades 7-12, sequential courses, very few electives, Carnegie units…college preparatory
Seven Cardinal Principles (1918)…students should receive education in health, command of fundamental processes, worthy home membership, vocation, civic education, worthy use of leisure, ethical character

3. The Development of the Teaching Profession
Increasing complexity of the educational enterprise…especially since WWII…increasing federal involvement
G I Bill
National Science Foundation
Categorical Federal Aid
Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity
No Child Left Behind

4. Teachers Colonial Teachers Teachers as Indentured Servants
Teaching Apprenticeships
Teacher Training in Academies
Normal Schools
State Teachers’ Colleges

5. Recent Trends in Education
Major changes from John Dewey, George Counts, William Bagley, Lewis Terman and other intellectuals to Abraham Maslow, Benjamin Bloom, Jerome Bruner, Marshall McLuhan, Jean Piaget
Analysis of Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, Sociological Study, Study of the Learning Process