Public Education

Addie BihmSkylar Moss

Effects

• Industrialization and rise of factory system• Spread of merchant capitalism• Expansion and economic influence of banks

and insurance• Transportation• Population growth • Westward migration

Overall Education

• Objectives of these schools were very poor• “…lacked adequate supplies, paid teachers poorly,

were unclean and lacked discipline” (Education 1)• Prepare women for life • Prepare men for work– Business skills vs. trade/industrial skills

– http://www2.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841865/history/educate.htm

Education of White Boys and Girls

• “Education was not a primary focus of Americans within the antebellum period” (1).

• “Most Americans, apparently, found that the schools, despite their manifest inefficiencies and problems, met their own, and by implication, their country’s, educational needs satisfactory” (1).

• District schools, academies, and colleges

• http://www2.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841865/history/educate.htm

Teachers

• 4 classifications of teachers after schools had come under the care of the state: preachers, young college graduates, indentured servants, and men and women who dedicated their lives to teaching for many years.

• http://www2.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841865/history/educate.htm

Education of Native Americans

• Until 1793 under control of missionaries • Indian Civilization Act • Removal act of 1830-Trail of Tears– Reestablishment of schools in 1841/1842

• No influence on young Native Americans

• http://www2.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841865/history/educate.htm

Common School Movement

• Henry Barnard and Horace Mann • Pushed for public education of all elementary-

age white children • Establish a system of publicly supported

elementary and secondary schools

• http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?

Changes

• 94% of the North and 83% of the white in South could read

• 1830 35% 1850 50.4%• Development of mass teaching materials• Increase in the number of female teachers• Rise of academies• Increase of colleges and college-educated students• 90% literacy rate in 1860

• http://movementsinamerica9.wikifoundry.com/page/School+and+Education+Reform?t=anon

2014 Education

• 99% literacy rate• 5.7% in higher education• 21.3% attended college• Many more choices now

Works Cited

• Primary– Jefferson, Thomas. America History , 13 august 1786. Web. 28 Oct. 2014.

<http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php>.– Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Public Papers, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

http://etext.virginia .edu/jefferson/texts/

• Secondary – Corey, Melinda. "education during the antebellum period." In Rohrbough, Malcolm J., and Gary B. Nash, eds.

Encyclopedia of American History: Expansion and Reform, 1813 to 1855, Revised Edition (Volume IV). New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2010. American History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE52&iPin=EAHIV084&SingleRecord=True (accessed October 24, 2014).

– "Education." American Indian. 1995 ed. – “Education.” Dictionary of American History. 1976 ed. – "Education: Post Colonial." Encyclopedia of North American Indians. 1996 ed. – "Friedrich Fröbel -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 28 Oct. 2009.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Fr%C3%B6bel>. Friedrich Froebel created Kindergarten and designed the Froebel Gifts and Blocks. Web. 28 Oct. 2009. <http://www.froebelweb.org/>. http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/UIA%20Online/images/mann,%20horace3.jpg http://sanctimommy.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/froebel.jpg