The Colonial Period: 1642 -1776 b Massachusetts- “Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647 b Middle Atlantic b South
Colonial Schools b Town School b Parochial and private Schools b Latin Grammar Schools • Boston Latin Grammar School 1635 b The Academy b College
Textbooks and Readers b The Hornbook b The New England Primer
The National Period: 1776 -1850 b Benjamin Rush b Thomas Jefferson b Noah Webster b William Holmes Mc. Guffey • Mc. Guffey Readers
Nineteenth-Century European Educators b Pestalozzi b Froebel b Herbart b Spencer • What knowledge is most worth?
Universal Education b Monitorial Schools b Common Schools b The Academy b The High School • James Conant
The Transitional Period: 18931918 b Committee of Fifteen on Elementary Education b Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies b Committee on College Entrance Requirements
A Modern Curriculum b Flexner b Dewey b Judd b Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education • Cardinal Principles
Seven Cardinal Principles b Health b Command of the Fundamentals b Worthy Home Membership b Vocation b Citizenship b Leisure b Ethical Character
Curriculum as a Field b Bobbitt and Charters b Kilpatrick b The Twenty-Sixth Yearbook b Rugg and Caswell b Eight Year Study b Tyler
Tyler’s Basic Principles b What educational purposes should the school seek to attain? b What educational experiences can be provided that are likely to attain these purposes? b How can these educational experiences be effectively organized? b How can we determine whether these purposes are being attained?