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 Massachusetts were responsible for the "education" of the children living under their roof. (including children of servants and apprentices), which meant instruction in "reading, religion, and law.

The first American schools in the thirteen original colonies opened in the 17th century. Boston Latin School was founded in 1635 and is both the first public school and oldest existing school in the United States.[1] The first free taxpayer-supported public school in North America, the Mather School, was opened in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1639.[2][3] Cremin (1970) stresses that colonists tried at first to educate by the traditional English methods of family, church, community, and apprenticeship, with schools later becoming the key agent in "socialization." At first, the rudiments of literacy and arithmetic were taught inside the family, assuming the parents had those skills. 

1800 AD Rural schools in the United States consisted of a house with a single room. A single teacher instructed students of different grades.

Benjamin Franklin founded a private academy (a private secondary school) that offers a practical curriculum of a variety of subjects and useful skills. By the mid 1800s, many such private academies existed, offering a wide array of curricula and courses ranging from traditional Latin and Greek to very practical, utilitarian studies.

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes. United States, which occurred during the period from about 1760 to about 1820-1840.The children were already being trained as "productive" people, only the children of the Burgecia upper class could go to study, the working class wanted children and girls had to work and go to school at night.

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Marked by decline of parental authority; 

children of certain ages compelled to 

attend school.

A majority of children, ages 6 to 13, are now enrolled in government elementary schools. By 1980, 99% of U.S. children attended government schools . 1909 First public junior high school established in  Berkeley, California.