A brief history Education
Yuliet Renteria Education is the social institution through which a society teaches its members the skills, knowledge, norms and values they need to learn to become good and productive members of their society. As this definition makes clear, education is an important part of socialization. Early American education was primarily private or religious, and it brought mass schooling and literacy to the nation well before the public school system we know today was legislated into existence. Public schooling arose in response to an influx of immigrants who had different religions or cultures. First education law enacted by Massachusetts General Court requiring parents and guardians of children to “make certain that their charges could read and understand the principles of religion and the laws of the Commonwealth” The "Massachusetts Compulsory Attendance Law," passed in 1642, did not require children to go to school, but it did state that all heads of households in Massachusett...