Month: June 2023

[Editor’s Note: This is the 36th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] While there were obvious disagreements and ideological conflicts regarding tax-supported common schools in the years before the American Civil War, people in … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, Common School Period (Wrap-up)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 35th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] As we’ve seen throughout this series, post-secondary education in the American colonies was only available to a limited segment of the population … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System: Morrill Land Grant Acts”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 34th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] The National Education Association (NEA) was founded in 1857 by 43 educators in Philadelphia as the National Teachers Association. Its mission was … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, Common School Period (National Education Association)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 33rd in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] Following the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the age of Reconstruction brought with it its own difficulties. Though Blacks … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, Common School Period (African American Education)”