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The Bottom Line:

After reading the final section of School: The Story of American Public Education, you see the significant change the educational system has undergone from the early eighteenth century to the 1950s and the 2000s. The educational system has gone from not knowing how to educate the children, to be sole exclusive to the white rich families- to the segregation of white children and black children to more than seventy percent of children graduating from high-school and going to college. Although the education system has improved, there are still many faults and changes that needed to be made to reform schooling. The main concern that was discussed was that the United States was not where they should be. Other parts of the world had begun to do much better than America. The Soviets had beat the Americans to space and while Japan began to take over in the auto industry. President Reagan began to fear that America wasn’t where they needed to be because of it education. Which is far from the tr...
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Immigration Vs Public Schooling

     After reading part two of School: The story of American Public Education, you are now seeing a much bigger progression of the public educational system. Although the educational system still has its flaws, it has improved very much so from the early 19th century. During this era, we had an expansion of public schools. More and more schools were being built as education was now seen as a necessity and that each child needed to have an education. There was still an issue as to what form of the curriculum the school should be following. Apart from the blossoming for these new schools, American itself was also undergoing many changes and was seen as a place of great opportunity. Immigrants have noticed this as well and saw America and an American dream: a place where their children would have more opportunities then they did. With more immigrants and immigrant children emerging into the States an issue of where to place them had occurred. Although more schools were built...
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The Common School Era:

 After reading the first section of the story of American Public Education, it gives in insight into how the schooling system started in the eighteenth century and how it began to blossom by the nineteenth century. Although schooling wasn’t much of a concern during the 18th century, parents still wanted their children to have the ability to read. Agriculture was the main concern and it how most made a living. They didn’t need an education to know how to farm and produce products for the community. The 18th century did have schooling but was were very limited and the school would be miles away. Schooling also wasn’t free and wasn’t opening to everyone. Only the Rich and White would be able to attend school. It wasn’t until the 19th century and the political leaders of that time were concern with the future generation. The next generation would be responsible for the future of democracy. They feared that if schooling wasn’t mandated then the next generation would ruin what they worke...
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Introduction

             Hello everyone! My name is Kimberly Guarquila. I’m a Psychology major at NJCU. This is my Junior year. My interests are painting, writing, and creating makeup looks. I also love to spend my time at work, I quite enjoy my job. I’m a dog walker and I spend most of my day with dogs and cats. I decided to take this class simply because I was very much interested in the class. I wanted to know more about the educational system in America, seeing as my main goal is to become a school psychologist.             When I think back about my earliest memories and experiences dealing with literacy, I think back to when I was four years old and I was starting pre-school. In fact, at four years old that was the first time I’ve ever held let alone looked at a book. I had no idea what the book said, not only were the words in English, but I didn’t know how to read. It...
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