EDF 2005 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Arab Americans, Essentialism
20 Dec 2017
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Intro to the teaching profession (foundations: the multicultural history of american education (chapter 5, elementary schools <131, regional differences (southern/middle/new england - old deluder satan law) Massachusetts colony law requiring teachers in towns of fifty families or more and that schools be built in towns of one hundred families or more. Communities must teach children to read so that they can read the bible and thwart satan: dame schools <122> Dame schools - primary schools in colonial and other early periods in which students were taught by untrained women in the women"s own homes. These dames taught reading, writing, and computation. A dame, or well-respected woman with an interest in the education, became (for a fee) the community"s teacher. These private schools taught by women in their homes offered child care for working parents willing to pay a fee. The dames who taught here received meager wages, and the quality of instruction varied greatly: common schools (horace mann) <125>
