https://padlet.com/dannyhasbun/u1rqrl143akj Made to rank important events in the history of U.S. education en-us 2018-11-06 00:52:07 UTC 2018-11-06 04:34:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Prizecup.png dannyhasbun https://padlet.com/dannyhasbun/u1rqrl143akj/wish/300786723 Though other types of formal education existed in the colonies, the Common School seems to be the closest thing to what we now call public schooling. The advent of the Common School was also accompanied by some of the first U.S. educational laws (the Northwest Ordinances) and the first conversations about what U.S. education can or should look like: proponents of Common Schools pointed out that these schools would develop the educated and informed citizens necessary for a healthy democracy. This link between education and democracy is something we still see today. ]]> 2018-11-06 00:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dannyhasbun/u1rqrl143akj/wish/300786723 dannyhasbun https://padlet.com/dannyhasbun/u1rqrl143akj/wish/300788675 The Kalamazoo Case of 1874 set another important precedent for future U.S. education: it normalized the practice of taxing the public in order to finance local public schools. Without this ruling, it is unlikely that public schools today would be as successful or as numerous as they are. Also, establishing this sort of direct financial relationship (which is, at best, a mutual dependency) between citizens and public schools ensured two things which still influence us today: first, schools' resources are directly proportional to the wealth of their communities; and two, schools are now much more accountable to the communities which pay their bills. Because of the Kalamazoo Case, schools' finances and governance became much more democratized. ]]> 2018-11-06 01:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dannyhasbun/u1rqrl143akj/wish/300788675 dannyhasbun https://padlet.com/dannyhasbun/u1rqrl143akj/wish/300791504 Though the Common Schools and the Kalamazoo Case provided generally important structural models for what American education looks like today, neither of these quite get us to the present without the advent of Public Comprehensive High Schools in the 19th and 20th centuries. PCHS' contribution to the history of American education is not so much structural as it is curricular: the beginnings of PCHS show the disappearance of subjects like theology and moral philosophy, and the introduction of more familiar (from our point-of-view) subjects like physical education, modern foreign languages, and civics. Simply put, public schools would not be what they are today unless the development of PCHS had set this curricular example. ]]> 2018-11-06 01:23:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dannyhasbun/u1rqrl143akj/wish/300791504 dannyhasbun https://padlet.com/dannyhasbun/u1rqrl143akj/wish/300792939 1954's Brown v. Board represents an all-too-important change in the history of American Education that is neither structural nor curricular, but social: in this case, the Supreme Court decided that separate educational facilities for Black and White students were unequal, unjust, and illegal. After this decision, U.S. education entered a new phase of desegregation with all its consequences, both good and bad. The U.S. still has much work to do in the effort to fight prejudice and provide equal opportunities to all peoples, but Brown v. Board it proved to be a crucial victory in the history of this struggle. After this decision, a new generation of White Americans began to live in community with their nonwhite fellow Americans in a very meaningful and all-too-necessary way. ]]> 2018-11-06 01:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dannyhasbun/u1rqrl143akj/wish/300792939 dannyhasbun https://padlet.com/dannyhasbun/u1rqrl143akj/wish/300795493 The advent of NCLB in the early 2000s marks an important development in the structure of U.S. education: though this was certainly not the first federal educational law in U.S. history, NCLB upped the ante of its predecessors through its implementation of rigorous standardized testing and accountability measures for failing schools. It set U.S. education on a nationalized Back-to-Basics track which new measures like Common Core still follow today (with occasional adjustments, of course). NCLB had many supporters and many critics, but no one can deny its influence on the history of U.S. education, the implications of which are still being interpreted today. ]]> 2018-11-06 01:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dannyhasbun/u1rqrl143akj/wish/300795493