EDUCATION IN AMERICA SERIES

Duration: 16 min

Year Published: 1958

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Titles are: SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. From the early New England School laws to the educational provisions of the Northwest Ordinance, the beginnings of American education are re-enacted in actual locations of Dame Schools, Latin Grammar Schools, church schools, and pauper schools. With the colonial colleges, these early beginnings were the foundation of education in colonial America. [LC card Fi A 58-512; EFLA evaluation card No. 3667] NINETEENTH CENTURY. The development of free public school systems from the Northwest Ordinance to 1900 includes the westward movement; the change to secular education; the influence of American textbooks; the rise and decline of the district school; the struggle for tax support and state control; the contributions of Daniel Webster, William McGuffey, Gideon Hawley, and Horace Mann; the effect of the Civil War; compulsory attendance laws; and the rise of teacher training institutions. [LC card Fi A 58-513; EFLA evaluation card No. 3666] TWENTIETH CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS. Effects of the industrial revolution on education in America; the influences of Herbart, Binet, Dewey, Thorndike, and others; the appearance of the junior high school and graduate education; the building of central, consolidated schools, federal aid to education through the Depression, the G.I. Bill; and recent Supreme Court decisions are studied. [LC card Fi A 58-514; EFLA evaluation card No. 3668]

Complete Record: Source: Coronet Interest level: c-ad Guide: Guide Price: ea $90, color ea $165 Format: sd b&w Catalog numbers: LC card Fi A 58-512; EFLA evaluation card No. 3667; LC card Fi A 58-513; EFLA evaluation card No. 3666; LC card Fi A 58-514; EFLA evaluation card No. 3668

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)