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EDU 324 Week 1 Assignment Colonial Classroom Then
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Assignment Colonial Classroom Then and
Now   Instruction in colonial schools was
primarily religious and authoritarian. Its goal
was preparation for eternity. The curriculum
stressed the four Rs readin, ritin,
rithmetic, and religion. Memorization and
recitation were the dominant instructional
processes. 
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EDU 324 Week 1 Journal The New England Primer
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m     EDU 324 Week 1 Journal The New England
Primer   It has been said that The New England
Primer was the most influential textbook in
history. This text, written by Benjamin Harris in
1690, was used to teach reading. School in the
1700s was heavily influenced by religion. The
common belief was that the inability to read was
Satans way to keep people from reading the Bible.
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EDU 324 Week 2 Assignment Take a Stand For more
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324 Week 2 Assignment Take a Stand   Education
was a priority for the founding fathers. Dr.
Benjamin Rush, unlike his peers, was an advocate
for education that included both females and
blacks. He founded one of the first female
academies in the United States, the Young Ladies
Academy of Philadelphia. Although he was a
believer in women being educated, his reasoning
for the importance of education was that it would
make women more subservient to men.
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EDU 324 Week 2 Journal What Did He Mean by That?
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m     EDU 324 Week 2 Journal What Did He Mean by
That?   1. What Did He Mean by That? CLOs 1,
4. Due by Day 7. Horace Mann (1779-1859) is best
known as the father of the American public
education system. Mann improved the school system
by limiting private influence, increasing the
number of high schools and increasing attendance.
In addition, he was instrumental in bettering the
salaries for teachers. Review the following
quotes from this great advocate for education.
Select one of the quotes and explain what it
means to you more than 200 years later.
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EDU 324 Week 3 Assignment Rough Draft For more
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324 Week 3 Assignment Rough Draft   At this point
you should have approximately 15 events for your
Final Project. You will submit a rough draft of
your project, listing at least 10 significant
events. You must include the following for each
event
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EDU 324 Week 3 Journal What Should Education
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Journal What Should Education Teach   W.E.B. Du
Bois was the first African American to earn a
doctorate from Harvard. He fought for African
American rights and cofounded the NAACP. Du Bois
sought social, economic and political reforms to
expand equality and access for minorities
(Pullman Van Patten).
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EDU 324 Week 4 Assignment Major Players For
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EDU 324 Week 4 Assignment Major Players   The
following list is a very small sampling of
reformers in education from 1918-1980   ?
Friedrich Froebel ? Jean Piaget ? John Dewey
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EDU 324 Week 4 Journal A Walk Through Time For
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 EDU 324 Week 4 Journal A Walk Through
Time   Watch the We Didnt Start the Fire video.
Lyrics to the video are available here.   There
are many references to American education in the
video. Choose any two examples from the video or
the lyrics. List your examples, and explain how
each directly impacted the American classroom..  
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EDU 324 Week 5 Final Project Interactive
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Final Project Interactive Timeline   For the
Final Project, you are required to make a
timeline of the events in the history of American
education that made a significant impact, and
include a summary of each event.  
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EDU 324 Week 5 Journal What is Balance in the
Elementary Classroom? For more course tutorials
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Journal What is Balance in the Elementary
Classroom?  Review the following paragraphs from
the Introduction in Chapter 10 of your text  The
first president of the new century, George W.
Bush, offered a reform plan called No Child Left
Behind (NCLB). The most sweeping education reform
legislation since the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965, it created a much larger
federal presence in educational policy and
funding and set the foundation for a national
testing system (Lewis, 2002, p. 423).
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