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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.
The storylines of race, gender, economics, religion, culture, geography, and politics drove and were driven by the history of education. Along the way, generations of children learned their ABCs and times tables from teachers they would remember for the rest of their lives.
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.
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.
The history of education in the United States covers the trends in formal education in America from the 17th century to the early 21st century.
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.
Education in the United States has a complicated past entrenched in religious, economic, national, and international concerns. In Colonial America, Puritans in Massachusetts knew education would teach children the ways of religion and laws, vital to survival in a new world.
Compulsory education in America arguably originated with Massachusetts’s legislative acts of 1642, 1647, and 1648; the 1642 act compelled education of children.
This chapter provides a brief history and review of the current state of public education, with a focus on five periods: Colonial America and the Revolution, the Age of the Common School, the Progressive Era, the Postwar Period, and the Emerging Twenty‐First Century.