Month: October 2023

[Editor’s Note: This blog is a supplement to blog 40 of this series that examines how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] Progressive educators from 1890-1920, according to historian David Tyack, were divided into two large categories: administrative progressives and pedagogical progressives. This isn’t … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, 20th Century (Progressive Education: Centralization)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 46th 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.] Along with the modification of traditional subjects, the comprehensive high schools of the 1920s also began to offer new courses. One of … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, 20th Century (The Comprehensive High School: New Subjects)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 45th 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 failure to establish separate vocational training schools for non-college-bound high school students, the battle for the future of American education … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, 20th Century (The Comprehensive High School)”