[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)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 44th in a series of blogs that examines how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] Following World War I, two additional rungs were added to the educational ladder: the junior high school and the junior (community) college. … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, 20th Century (Two New Rungs)”

[Editor’s Note: This is the 43rd in a series of blogs that examines how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] The educational ladder represents the hierarchical rungs that served students from the time they first entered their years of formal schooling through the … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System, 20th Century (The Educational Ladder)”

[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)”