1600 - 1699

Colonial Education

1700 - 1799

Revolutionary Education

1800 - 1865

The Charity School

The Common School Movement

The Development of the High School

Multicultural “Education”

Administration and Professionalization

A Brief Overview: Schultz’s 19th Century Textbooks (1838-1855)

1865 - 1899

Teachers’ Organizations

Social Educational Developments

Vocational Education

Administration and Professionalization

Darwinism and the Progressive Movement

1900 - 1919

The NAACP

The Vocational Guidance Association

Administration and Professionalization

Scientific Management

The NCTE

1920 - 1929

Social Engineering

The Media

1930 - 1939

The Media

Political Pressure

The Arthurdale Experiment and Place-Based Education

1940 - 1949

Progressive Education

The Life-Adjustment Movement

Political Pressure

1950 - 1959

The National Science Foundation

Civil Rights

Criticism of Progressive Education

1960 - 1969

War on Poverty

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Rough Rock Demonstration School

1970 - 1979

Equality and Multicultural Education

1980 - 1989

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A Nation at Risk

1990 - 1999

2000 - 2009