EDF 1005 timeline by https://padlet.com/cmm20f/t055vlk0d5ezmhea Team #4- Bradley, Carolina, Juno, and Zach en-us 2020-09-02 19:12:52 UTC 2025-12-06 14:07:44 UTC hello@padlet.com 1850s- Women and the Common School Reforms cmm20f https://padlet.com/cmm20f/t055vlk0d5ezmhea/wish/716048398
During the mid-nineteenth century, common school reformers began to hire more and more women as teachers. The reformers cited what they believed to be inherent traits of a woman (maternal, caring) as reasons to have women as teachers. Additionally, by law schools only had to pay female teachers a third of what they would have to pay men. This led to a major increase of female teachers in the US.
]]> 2020-09-02 19:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cmm20f/t055vlk0d5ezmhea/wish/716048398 1890s-1910s: Women Teacher’s Rebellion cmm20f https://padlet.com/cmm20f/t055vlk0d5ezmhea/wish/716048692 Majority of teachers at this time were women, but few held administrative positions and all women teachers and administrators were heavily scrutinized and constantly watched over. On top of this they were underfunded, underpaid, worked in horrible conditions, and had no control over what they were able to teach. In response to this, they rebelled with people like Margaret Haley and Catherine Goggin at the head. I chose this event because out of this event bred one of the two national teaching unions in the United States, the American Federation of Teachers. (Juno S.)]]> 2020-09-02 19:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cmm20f/t055vlk0d5ezmhea/wish/716048692 1954- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas cmm20f https://padlet.com/cmm20f/t055vlk0d5ezmhea/wish/716049005 This court case overturned the ruling of the 1895 case, Plessy v. Ferguson. In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal under the concept of facilities being “separate but equal”. In Brown v. Board of Education, Brown argued that this segregation, specifically in schools, was unequal. Although many schools remained segregated well into the 1960s, this case was a turning point for the legality of desegregation in schools.


]]> 2020-09-02 19:19:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cmm20f/t055vlk0d5ezmhea/wish/716049005 A Nation at Risk, 1980s cmm20f https://padlet.com/cmm20f/t055vlk0d5ezmhea/wish/716049282 The reason that I selected this topic is because of the difficulty, but tentative progress that it appears to have achieved in the recent decades. With the 1983 report called “A Nation At risk”, they were showing how bad the American educational system had become, due to the fact that we had underpaid and underqualified teachers, leading us down a path that would place us far behind other western democracies. With the counter document in 1986 known as “A Nation Prepared”, we began seeing that higher qualifications for teachers alongside greater involvement on curriculum selection would be a huge aide to both our students and our educational structure as a whole. It shows that we care about the people who spend their lives trying to prepare the next generation of society to have the tools to be an outstanding citizen, while also recognizing that the educators are people too and would be an incredible tool when dealing with the structuring of the lessons. But with this in mind, although there have been some tentative steps to achieve these goals, such as “No Child Left Behind” alongside “Race to the Top”, we have seen very mixed results. So, although this was a necessity to focus on and will without a doubt be a great aid in the nature of education in this country, the progress that has been made has not been immediate.
 
]]> 2020-09-02 19:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cmm20f/t055vlk0d5ezmhea/wish/716049282 1840s - Feminization cmm20f https://padlet.com/cmm20f/t055vlk0d5ezmhea/wish/722291247  
Around the 1840s women were becoming more educated and the US had a high rate of female literacy especially with younger females. They praised teachers for being of having high moral standards and "upright living". However, as more females became teachers, they become teachers at a much younger age which brought up the concern whether or not they could maintain control over their classroom, particularly with boys who were of relative age and height. Many states put together academic standards and requirements for teachers, even "Normal Schools" which were schools devoted to teacher education. However, despite this dedication, it was permitted that female teachers also make less - only a third of what men received to be exact, simply because they were female. 
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