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The first American schools in the Thirteen Colonies opened in the 17th century. [8] The first public schools in America were established by the Puritans in New England during the 17th century. Boston Latin School was founded in 1635. [9] Boston Latin School was not funded by tax dollars in its early days, however.
American education, democracy, and the Second World War (2007) online; Geiger, Roger L. The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (Princeton UP 2014), 584pp; encyclopedic in scope online; Geiger, Roger L., ed. The American College in the Nineteenth Century. Vanderbilt University Press. (2000).
Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th Century, the Puritan emphasis on literacy largely influenced the significantly higher literacy rate (70 percent of men) of the Thirteen Colonies, mainly New England, in comparison to Britain (40 percent of men) and France (29 percent of men).
"From 1912 to 1932, the Rosenwald schools program built 4,977 schools for African American children across 15 southern and border states. One final school was added in 1937.
These small schools were local, private subscription schools that often were built on exhausted farm fields. They usually operated for three months a year. [6] and in a hodgepodge of publicly funded projects. In the colony of Georgia, at least ten grammar schools were in operation by 1770, many taught by ministers.
The first education system was created in the Xia dynasty (2076–1600 BC). During the Xia dynasty, the government built schools to educate aristocrats about rituals, literature, and archery (important for ancient Chinese aristocrats). During the Shang dynasty (1600 BC to 1046 BC), normal people (farmers, workers, etc.) accepted rough education.
Bloom was built in 1896, making the large brick school 127 years old. Approximately 550 students attend the three-story school. Its walls are lined with red lockers below student art.
The great school wars: A history of the New York City public schools (1975), a standard scholarly history online; Ravitch, Diane, and Joseph P. Viteritti, eds. City Schools: Lessons from New York (2000) Ravitch, Diane, ed. NYC schools under Bloomberg and Klein what parents, teachers and policymakers need to know (2009) essays by experts online