Discover what shapes how we talk about schools today by exploring the history of U.S. education reform. Engage with the main actors, key decisions, and major turning points in this history. See how social forces drive reform. Learn about how the critical tensions embedded in U.S. education policy and practice apply to schools nationally, globally— and where you live.
American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice
proposé par
University of Pennsylvania
Programme du cours : ce que vous apprendrez dans ce cours
Semaine
1The Colonial Period and Early Republic
This module looks at the sources of education in Colonial America; factors that motivated the acquisition of literacy in the colonies; formal educational institutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; post-Revolution republican visions of free public schools; characteristics of elementary schools in the early Republic; and Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia Academy.
8 videos (Total 56 min), 1 lecture, 1 quiz
8 vidéos
Course Overview4 min
1.1) Course Introduction4 min
1.2) U.S. Education - An Early Transformation 10 min
1.3) Literacy in the Colonial Period7 min
1.4) Institutions of Colonial Education7 min
1.5) Early Republic Proponents of Common Schools to Build a New Nation5 min
1.6) Early Republic Schooling in the United States9 min
1.7) Benjamin Franklin’s Academy6 min
1 lecture
Further Learning10 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Colonial Period/Early Republic Quiz10 min
Semaine
2The National Period
This module takes up the accelerating market economy between 1815 and 1850; the Second Great Awakening and its spur to social innovations; Horace Mann’s paean for “common” schools; Whigs and the common school movement; Catholic opposition to common schools; the suppression of black literacy in the antebellum South; and nineteenth-century academies.
8 videos (Total 47 min), 1 lecture, 2 quiz
8 vidéos
2.1) Introduction 1 min
2.2) The National Market Economy 7 min
2.3) "What God Hath Wrought": Dramatic Social Innovations 5 min
2.4) Horace Mann: Avatar of Common Schools7 min
2.5) The Common School Idea as a Social Movement 5 min
2.6) Protestants and Catholics in the Arena7 min
2.7) Education of African Americans and Native Americans 6 min
2.8) Secondary Schooling in the Common School Era: The Academy4 min
1 lecture
Further Learning10 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
National Period Quiz10 min
Semaine
3Postbellum Period
This module considers the post-Civil War expansion of the common school and the reality behind the myth of the “Little Red Schoolhouse”; the educational gains made by blacks during the Reconstruction period and the limits white supremacists put on blacks’ educational progress after Reconstruction; the Hampton/Tuskegee model of industrial education for blacks and the role of northern industrial philanthropists; Plessy v. Ferguson and Jim Crow schooling in the South; the Carlisle Indian School; and the early progress of the American high school.
7 videos (Total 40 min), 1 lecture, 1 quiz
7 vidéos
3.1) Introduction 1 min
3.2) Expansion of the Common School 6 min
3.3) After Emancipation: Education of African Americans in the Reconstruction South7 min
3.4) Industrial Education in the South's Organic Society 7 min
3.5) Jim Crow and the Radical Segregation of African Americans6 min
3.6) Boarding Schools for Native Americans 3 min
3.7) The Rise of the American High School 5 min
1 lecture
Further Learning10 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Postbellum Era Quiz10 min
Semaine
4The Progressive Era
This module looks at the Progressive movement writ large; the U.S. settlement movement as a source of urban school reform; the changes “administrative progressives” effected in the governance of urban school districts; the influence of the U.S. Army’s World War I intelligence- testing program on the American school system; social efficiency schooling and its theoretical foundations; the Committee of Ten, 1892–93; the Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education, 1918; and Booker T.Washington and W.E.B. DuBois.
9 videos (Total 55 min), 1 lecture, 1 quiz
9 vidéos
4.1) Introduction3 min
4.2) Progressive Seedbeds of Education Reform4 min
4.3) Rise of the Administrative Progressives in American School Reform 6 min
4.4) Psychological Testing Movement7 min
4.5) Social Efficiency Schooling 6 min
4.6) The Committee of Ten5 min
4.7) The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education7 min
4.8) The Southern Education Movement 7 min
4.9) Rosenwald Schools and County Training Schools for African Americans6 min
1 lecture
Further Learning10 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Progressive Era Quiz10 min
4.8
15 avisMeilleurs avis
par JQ•Mar 4th 2016
Interesting review of American Education Reform. Thanks for providing information on a topic on which I felt uninformed prior to reading and hearing this course.
par SD•Nov 14th 2017
This course provided background information that I would have not found anywhere else. More materials please!!
Enseignants
Dr. John L. Puckett
Professor of EducationGraduate School of Education
Dr. Michael Charles Johanek
Senior FellowGraduate School of Education
À propos de University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn) is a private university, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A member of the Ivy League, Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and considers itself to be the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies.
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