Category: Education

[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)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 32nd 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 1852, Massachusetts enacted the Compulsory Attendance Act of 1852, the first general law attempting to control the education of the country’s … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, Common School Period (Compulsory Education)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 31st 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 rapid industrialization of the new United States offered many opportunities, and that led to a wave of immigrants eager to take … Continue reading “The History of Education: The American Educational System, Common School Period (Catholic vs Protestant Education)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 30th 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 1833, a small, Cincinnati, Ohio, publishing company called Truman and Smith became interested in the idea of publishing school texts. They … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, Common School Period (McGuffey Readers)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 29th 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.] Mary Lyon is best known in educational circles as the founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary (now College), the first higher education institution … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, Common School Period (Mary Lyon)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 28th 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.] Sometimes called “The Father of American Education,” Horace Mann was born in 1796 in Franklin, Massachusetts. His formal schooling only lasted 8-10 … Continue reading “The History of Education: The American Educational System, Common School Period (Horace Mann)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 27th 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.] During the Early National Period of American history, there were two landmark cases relating to higher education. The first was the Dartmouth … Continue reading “The History of Education: The American Educational System, Early National Period (Dartmouth College/Yale Report of 1828)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 26th 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 the Colonial period, each of the individual colonies determined its own laws regarding formal education. The new country was a melting … Continue reading “The History of Education: The American Educational System, Early National Period (Educational Ordinances)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 25th 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.] When we talk about contributions to education, we’d be remiss in not mentioning Noah Webster — yes, that Webster, whose name appears … Continue reading “The History of Education: The American Educational System, Early National Period (Noah Webster)”