Education in the 1800s

Question 1

Common school movement

Answer 1

• led by andrew jackson
• worked because of economic change
• migration from rural to urban, transitioned from agriculture to industrial production, many lost jobs or went on strike
• Jackson argued that employers would have less problems if they hired workers with common school education

Question 2

Education in South Prior to civil war

Answer 2

• difficult to establish common schools in south during reconstruction due to class divisions, dispersed population, economic crisis
• slaves weren’t allowed to learn, only upper class
• lack of supplies/texts/teachers
• church based schooling was still predominant

Question 3

Reconstruction and effects on North and South

Answer 3

• reconstruction made it illegal to educate slaves

- yankee school mans educated the south on errors of their ways

Question 4

Reconstruction and new modern school system

Answer 4

• strong government role, means to assimilate
• Dawes Act (sold NA land to speculators)
• NA were seen as a problem bc they lived on profitable land
• Reservation day schools were created to assimilate into modern ways
• taken to Carlisle school in order to become “white”`

Question 5

Reconstruction and Compulsory Laws

Answer 5

• cant hold kids out of school
• feared urban youth, immigrants and child labor
• feared youth would become lazy and not have motives to work
• pushed beliefs on immigrants
• poor working conditions and laws were being passed that children could only work certain hrs, education gave them something to do

Question 6

Reconstruction and One Best System

Answer 6

• age grading, uniform courses of study, examinations
• taught striation (punctuality, obedience)
• school boards
• moved through to manufacturing jobs

Question 7

Progressive movement

Answer 7

• administrative progressive: establish school boards to oversee curriculum and maintain upper class, idea of social control, white men influencing school policy, had most influence during this time
• pedagogical progressive: more aligned with liberalism and social justice, more child centered teaching and improvement of relationships between teachers and administrators, focus on problem solving and critical thinking

Question 8

Progressive movement and curricular differentiation

Answer 8

-affected high school, students were tracked into educational or vocational training, tried to equalize citizens within the education system