Historical Events

Northwest Land Ordinances of 1785 and 1787

This ordinance established that the Northwest Territory would be surveyed into square townships, which would be 6 miles on eachside

Jefferson's Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge, introduced in the Virginia legislature in 1779, proposed the establishment of asystem of public schools for the state.

Free Schools Rush wanted to establish a system in Pennsylvania, and eventually the entire nation, thatwould provide public support for free schools.

Monitorial schools originated in England and were brought to America by a Quaker, Joseph Lancaster. In the  Lancasterian monitorialsystem , one paid teacher instructed hundreds of pupils through the use of monitors, or student teachers, who were chosen for theiracademic abilities. 

Sunday school, a form of charity school, was begun in 1780 in England by Robert Raikes. The first Sunday school in Americaopened in 1786 in Virginia. Its purpose was to offer moral instruction and the rudiments of reading and writing to children who workedduring the week, primarily in the factories of the larger cities

Free Schools Sunday School

These events are still significant today because public education is still “free”. Yes we have to pay taxes to keep the schools going. Unless you attend private school your public education is paid for by the hard working tax payers.

If I could change the outcome of one of my chosen events I would choose___ because____.

I would choose Sunday schools to be changed because no child should have to get out there and work hard at such a young age. They should have been granted the same rights to attend school during the week as the other children.

What would you say is the most important result of each of your chosen events? 

In my opinion the most important result of my events would be the free education. Every child deserves a right to a free education and this was the most important thing our founding fathers did for education.

References

Webb. L. D. (2014).  History of American education: Voices and perspectives. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

The Sunday school, a form of charity school, was begun in 1780 in England by Robert Raikes

Its purpose was to offer moral instruction and the rudiments of reading and writing to children who workedduring the week, primarily in the factories of the larger cities

The Sunday school was seen as serving a secular purpose by providing these workingchildren—boys and girls aged 6 to 12 or 14—with an alternative to roaming the streets on Sunday.

Both wanted free education for the children.

Emphasized in reading and writing

Was offered to boys and girls

Rush wanted to establish a system in Pennsylvania, and eventually the entire nation, thatwould provide public support for free schools.

every town of 100 or more families a free school beestablished where children would be taught to read and write English and German

An academy was to be establishedin each county "for the purpose of instructing youth in the learned languages (Latin andGreek), and thereby preparing them to enter college