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• EDU 324 Week 1 Assignment Colonial Classroom Then
  and Now
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• EDU 324 Week 1 Assignment Colonial Classroom Then
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• Instruction in colonial schools was primarily
  religious and authoritarian. Its goal was
  preparation for eternity. The curriculum stressed
  the four Rs readin, ritin, rithmetic, and
  religion. Memorization and recitation were the
  dominant instructional processes. 
• The schoolmaster relied on fear to motivate
  children and to keep them in order. It was not
  uncommon for a gag to be put in the mouth of a
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• EDU 324 Week 1 Journal The New England Primer
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• EDU 324 Week 1 Journal The New England Primer
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• It has been said that The New England Primer was
  the most influential textbook in history. This
  text, written by Benjamin Harris in 1690, was
  used to teach reading. School in the 1700s was
  heavily influenced by religion. The common belief
  was that the inability to read was Satans way to
  keep people from reading the Bible.

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• EDU 324 Week 2 Assignment Take a Stand
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• EDU 324 Week 2 Assignment Take a Stand
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• Education was a priority for the founding
  fathers. Dr. Benjamin Rush, unlike his peers, was
  an advocate for education that included both
  females and blacks. He founded one of the first
  female academies in the United States, the Young
  Ladies Academy of Philadelphia. Although he was a
  believer in women being educated, his reasoning
  for the importance of education was that it would
  make women more subservient to men.

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• EDU 324 Week 2 Journal What Did He Mean by That?
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• EDU 324 Week 2 Journal What Did He Mean by That?
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• 1. What Did He Mean by That? CLOs 1, 4. Due by
  Day 7. Horace Mann (1779-1859) is best known as
  the father of the American public education
  system. Mann improved the school system by
  limiting private influence, increasing the number
  of high schools and increasing attendance. In
  addition, he was instrumental in bettering the
  salaries for teachers. Review the following
  quotes from this great advocate for education.
  Select one of the quotes and explain what it
  means to you more than 200 years later.
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• EDU 324 Week 3 Assignment Rough Draft
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•  EDU 324 Week 3 Assignment Rough Draft
•  At this point you should have approximately 15
  events for your Final Project. You will submit a
  rough draft of your project, listing at least 10
  significant events.
• You must include the following for each event
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• ? The title of the event
• ? The year(s) of the event
• ? A summary (25 to 50 words) of the event ? An
  image that represents the event
• ? A caption that labels the image
• ? The URL of the image chosen
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• EDU 324 Week 3 Journal What Should Education
  Teach
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• EDU 324 Week 3 Journal What Should Education
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• W.E.B. Du Bois was the first African American to
  earn a doctorate from Harvard. He fought for
  African American rights and cofounded the NAACP.
  Du Bois sought social, economic and political
  reforms to expand equality and access for
  minorities (Pullman Van Patten).

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• EDU 324 Week 4 Assignment Major Players
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• EDU 324 Week 4 Assignment Major Players
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• The following list is a very small sampling of
  reformers in education from 1918-1980
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• ? Friedrich Froebel
• ? Jean Piaget
• ? John Dewey
• ? Thurgood Marshall ? Frazier and Sadker

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• EDU 324 Week 4 Journal A Walk Through Time
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• EDU 324 Week 4 Journal A Walk Through Time
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• Watch the We Didnt Start the Fire video. Lyrics
  to the video are available here.
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• There are many references to American education
  in the video. Choose any two examples from the
  video or the lyrics. List your examples, and
  explain how each directly impacted the American
  classroom..

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• EDU 324 Week 5 Final Project Interactive Timeline
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• EDU 324 Week 5 Final Project Interactive Timeline
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• For the Final Project, you are required to make a
  timeline of the events in the history of American
  education that made a significant impact, and
  include a summary of each event.
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• Guidelines for the Timeline
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• To create the timeline, use the information from
  each weeks Timeline Discussion Forum response.
  (You may use the events you listed or the events
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• EDU 324 Week 5 Journal What is Balance in the
  Elementary Classroom?
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• EDU 324 Week 5 Journal What is Balance in the
  Elementary Classroom?
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• Review the following paragraphs from the
  Introduction in Chapter 10 of your text
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• The first president of the new century, George W.
  Bush, offered a reform plan called No Child Left
  Behind (NCLB). The most sweeping education reform
  legislation since the Elementary and Secondary
  Education Act of 1965, it created a much larger
  federal presence in educational policy and

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