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History of education in Chicago covers the schools of the city since the 1830s. It includes all levels as well as public, private and parochial schools. For the recent history since the 1970s see Chicago Public Schools. Public schools. Children returning to class following a fire drill at a Chicago elementary school, 1973. Photo by John H. White.
Beginning with modest structures in the early nineteenth century, Chicago's schools have performed an increasing variety of functions, from providing literacy to monitoring health and physical development, Americanizing immigrants, and addressing problems of social and economic inequality.
As the city grew, work in Chicago underwent dramatic transformations, both in the type of industries that dominated and in the organization of work itself. Especially in the late nineteenth century, Chicago was both shaped by and helped to foment a nationwide revolution in work that first undermined and then remade the democratic promise of ...
Throughout the history of public education in the US, public schools have filled multiple roles. These roles are an outgrowth of why public schools came into being and how they have evolved. This publication briefly reviews that history.
29 paź 2013 · Offers a short overview of the role the history of education has played in the professional development of teachers in the United States, and why it is necessary for the field to remain in colleges or schools of education rather than shift to departments of history.
The history of education in the United States covers the trends in formal education in America from the 17th century to the early 21st century. Colonial era. Schooling was a high priority in Puritan New England, which set up strong systems, especially in the colonial-era Province of Massachusetts Bay.
31 sty 2019 · This article proceeds in three parts. First, I revisit the high point of the Chicago school crisis to reveal how conceptions of parental choice, racial stabilization, and academic selectivity structured the strategic vision that activists and their allies pursued in their fight against Willis.
