Chapter 5: The History of Schools in the United States

Expectations for education have come a long way since colonial times. In the past 300 years, we have gone from schools that only taught religious texts to schools today that are embracing banned books. In the beginning, we has no schools, but then we only created schools to teacher children to read and write so they could read religious scriptures. Then, we only had male teachers and didn't get female teachers until the late 18th century, and di not move from dame schools to public schools until the 1840's. Schools then advanced to have reading, writing, grammar, etc in public schools known as common schools in the Common School Era of the 1830's.Moving ahead, in the 1960's the public school system desegregated because the nonwhite schools were not deemed as different but equal, they were lesser. After the students were happier with their education conditions, graduation rates increased and students were more likely to go on to higher education.