The History of American Education

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The History of American Education

• Leaders, Movements and Events

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Old Deluder Satan Act

• The Old Deluder Act (1647) From Records of the
  Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in
  New England (1853), II 203 It being one chief
  project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men
  from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in
  former times by keeping them in an unknown
  tongue, so in these latter times by persuading
  from the use of tongues, that so that at least
  the true sense and meaning of the original might
  be clouded and corrupted with false glosses of
  saint-seeming deceivers and to the end that
  learning may not be buried in the grave of our
  forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord
  assisting our endeavors. It is therefore ordered
  that every township in this jurisdiction, after
  the Lord hath increased them to fifty households
  shall forthwith appoint one within their town to
  teach all such children as shall resort to him to
  write and read, whose wages shall be paid either
  by the parents or masters of such children, or by
  the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as
  the major part of those that order the
  prudentials of the town shall appoint provided
  those that send their children be not oppressed
  by paying much more than they can have them
  taught for in other towns.
• And it is further ordered, that when any town
  shall increase to the number of one hundred
  families or householders, they shall set up a
  grammar school, the master thereof being able to
  instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for
  the university, provided that if any town neglect
  the performance hereof above one year that every
  such town shall pay 5 pounds to the next school
  till they shall perform this order.

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First Leaders
Benjamin Franklin and The Academy 1751
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Thomas Jefferson
An educated citizenry 1777
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Noah Webster
American Spelling Book and Dictionary 1783
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Catherine Beecher
Female Education and Physical Education
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Litchfield Academy exercise class
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Emma Willard
Higher Education for Women and Teacher
Education 1821
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BarhamvilleColumbia, SC1859
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William McGuffey
The McGuffey Reading Series 1836
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Horace Mann
Common School, Normal School, Public
Education 1837
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Freidrich Froebel
Kindergarten 1837
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Limestone Springs High School 1851
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Plessy Vs. FergusonSeparate but equal
Education1896
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Booker T. Washington
Public Education for all children and Vocational
Education Tuskegee Institute 1895
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W.E.B. Dubois
Higher education for the Talented
Tenth National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People 1905
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John Dewey
Progressive Education The Laboratory School 1919
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The Laboratory School
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Hand-on group work
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Maria Montessori
Childrens environment 1905
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Elementary Classroom
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Segregated by Gender
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Segregated by Race
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Brown vs. Board of Education1954
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Title IX (1972) and Public Law
94-142(1975)abolish discrimination by gender or
disability
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Mortimer Adler
Perennialism 1982
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Robert Hutchins
Perennialism and the Great Books
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Perennialist Classroom
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William Bagley
Essentialism No electives Back to Basics
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Essentialist Classroom
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Maxine Greene
Existentialism contemporary
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Existentialist Classroom
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21st CenturyNo Child Left Behind