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Education in the United States of America

Educational system has been shaped sińce colonial times by the first settlers, the founding fathers. They hoped that education would create a modern nation.

•    in the late 19th and 20th century by the waves of immigration

•    It served both the church and new colonies as Puritan New England stressed religious indoctrination

•    British authorities did not provide money for education, so local control developed

•    The first schools relied on the settlers themselves

•    The common view was that parents should be responsible for children's education

•    In 1642, the colony of Massachusetts passed a law assigning responsibility for the education of children to parents

•    At the same time each town tried to build a school (colonial North and Pennsylvania)

•    In 1647, the colony of Massachusetts passed a law that required every town to provide its children with schools and school masters.

•    Harvard College was founded in 1636, only six years after the puritan migration to America started

•    In the colonial South education was reserved for an elite of planters' children (private tutor)

•    Three R's - The core subjects were: reading, writing and arithmetic