Month: August 2023

[Editor’s Note: This is the 42nd 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.] After the period of frustrated debate in the late 19th and early 20th centuries over the direction of the educational system in the … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, 20th Century (The Great War: A Turning Point)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 41st 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.] Curricular differentiation in high schools did a 180 on what the common schools had been trying to achieve, which was to provide … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, 20th Century (Progressive Education: Curricular Differentiation)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 40th 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.] In 1906, the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education (NSPIE) was formed and became an influential voice in the progressive … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, 20th Century (Progressive Education: Vocational Education)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 39th 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 the 20th century began, the basic foundations and guidelines for public education had already been set, and the public embraced the … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, 20th Century (School Choice and Structure)”