Education & Immigration Timeline: Lecture Notes
©1999 Edward G. Rozycki

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Year 
Events 
Population in M
Immigration in M
Lecture Notes
1620 Paris Tea, Manchu
2.3 
   (Does any sequence of events make a history?)
1630 ---------------------
5
  A1. Early Regional Differences
1636 Harvard, RI     New England: knowledge can be evil
1638 Delaware     1647 Old Deluder Satan Act C&R 345
1640 ---------------------
27 
  original sin 346
1648 GBCivWar, SFrds     Bible literacy for social control
1650 ---------------------
50
  1750 Free schooling throughout NEngland
1681 Phila founded
152
  Middle Colonies
1693 Wm&Mary
251
  religious tolerance produces pluralism
1701 Yale     Lutheran Germn school, Amish separatism
1732 GWashington     South
1736 PHenry, hex     plantation economy: tutors, enforced illiteracy, no
1740  
906
  free schools
1746 ColNJ-Prnctn     West/Far West:private public difference not so clear
1750  
1,171
   
1756 ColPhila-Penn    
A2: New Attitudes
1765 ColRI-Brown     JJ Rousseau (1712- 172X) noble savage. society corrupts
  Stamp Act     J. Locke (1632-1704) tabula rasa
1766 Queens UCNY     J. Madison: Ed to preserve the Republic C&R 359
1776 Dec Indepndnc      
1789 Fr Revolution    
1791 ---------------------
5,297
  Sarah Pierce founds female academy in Litchfield,  Mass.
1800 ---------------------
5,297
  A3. The Common School Movement 1830 on Horace Mann (1790-1859) Shallow consensus
1812 War, F.Scott Key     The Imperfect Panacea: schools everything to everyone:
1818 UVa     Sectarianism yields to a watered-down Protestantism
Horace Mann (1790-1859) Shallow consensus
1821 ---------------------     Emma Williard founds Troy Female Seminary 
1823 ---------------------     Harriet Beecher founds Hartford Female Seminary
1836 Alamo      
1840 1ST Euro Census
17,120
599 GI (germany, ireland)  
1848 Gold, Chinese    
A4. Nationalism & Americanism
1850 Immigration
23,761
1713GIE (+England) 1800-1860 Sectaria'n competition in college building
1860 More Immigrtn
31,513
2598GE Protestantism vs Catholicism C&R 376
1861 Civil War     Anglo-philia; Manifest Destiny: Mexican-American 

War 1845

1862 Morrill Bill     Anti-Labor NAM influe ence on industrial education 1900
1864 GWCarver     The Melting Pot: a rationale for racist practices
1865 CW ends, KKK     (CHART HERE: attainment vs decade 1890-I980))
1868 WEB DuBois      
1875 MMBethune      
1877 Louis Terman
50,262
2812GIES  (+Scandinavia)
A5. Social Darwinism
(from Degenerationism to Evolutionism)
1882 Chin Excl Act   5247GIEST (+ Italy) Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)"survival of the fittest"'
1884 HTruman     Lost tribes Of Israel Aryan Mythology: Wagner
1890 2Morrl race = 63,056   Academic Racialism
1896 Plessy v Frgsn      
1900 ---------------------
76094
3688 TCeGI (Ce=Central Europe)  70% of all school teachers are female.
1905

1909

Binet IQ    

Ella Flagg Young becomes superintendent of Chicago schools

1910 ---------------------
92407
8795 iTRuCe (Ru=Russia) A6. Management Science / Social Efficiency The College Entrance Examinations
1917 WWI     The Development of IQ testing
1919 Prohibition     Tracking
1920 19th Amndmt
10641
5736 " " Progressive Education: J Dewey v W H Kilpatrick
1930 ---------------------
123188
4107CanTG (Can=Canada)  11% of all school superintendents are female.
1941 WWII
132122
528CanG A7. Sputnikism | Civil Rights Movement
1948 Cold War, Berlin     Brown v :Board of Education 1954
1950  
151684
1035CanGE  9% of all school superintendents are female.
1959 Cuban Rev
180671
2515GCeAMx  
1968 Vietnam War     By 1970 only 3% of all school superintendents are female.
1972 Saigon Falls
204879
3322 Asia, S,CAm A8. Assimilationism to Multiculturalism Lau v Nichols (1974) C&R 177

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