Amerian_education_1.pptVIP

American Education Contents Education in the U.S. --- History 1. American education was rooted in the Old World experience. When the Puritan settlers in Massachusetts came to the New World, they brought with them a belief that education was fundamental to religion and to service for the commonwealth. Education in the U.S. --- History 2. After the War of independence, American education came into its own. 3. Before the Civil War in the 1860s, there was little laws that concerned children to attend school. The colonial period Colonial primary education was well developed. Elementary school faced to children of working people, the main content is superficial cultural knowledge, and it emphasized on cultivating religious belief. Due to the different sources of immigration, different sects, immigrants from all over the world built school and managed it by themselves, especially in the complex ethnic states. Education in the early days of nation’s founding 教育的地方分权制 Decentralization of education system the appearance of Grammar School The development of high education and the appearance of State University American Perception of Education American Perception of Education Thomas Jefferson Washington and his first five successors Education Reform At the time of the nation’s founding and during the early decades of the nineteenth century, schools in US were modeled on English and Scottish arrangements marked by voluntary enrollments, fee-based education, religious instruction and local control. But over the next centuries, through a process of self-conscious reform, US schools gradually became compulsory, secularized, centralized, professionalized, and highly regulated and bureaucratized. These changes came in four distinct waves, led by four distinct types of school reformers. Four types of school reformers 1.nation-builders They wanted to use the school as a tool that would construct a people suitable to a burgeoning democracy. 2.the progressive