Cuadro Educacion Usa

|PERIOD |PRIMARY / ELEMENTARY |SECONDARY |HIGHER EDUCATION |AIMS |
|THE COLONIAL PERIOD |The British authorities did not provide | |Harvard (1636), |The New EnglandPuritans valued |
| |money for education | |College of William and Mary (1693), |education, both for the sake of religious|
| |Local control: each town tried to build a| |St. John's College, Annapolis MD(1696), |study (which was facilitated by Bible |
| |school. Southern colonies schooling often| |Yale (1701), |reading) and for the sake of economic |
| |came from a private tutor. | |Collegeof New Jersey (subsequently |success. It was also important for the |
| | | |Princeton) (1746), |keeping of order and law (to reduce |
| |1642 a system of public education was ||King's College (subsequently Columbia) |crimes and the vice of people) |
| |organized (colonial period) | |(1754), | |
| || |the College of Philadelphia (subsequently| |
| | | |the University of Pennsylvania) (1755), | |
| |1647: OLDSATAN DELUDER ACT: beginning of| |and Queen's College (subsequently | |
| |public education. It mandated every town | |Rutgers). | |
||of 50 or more families support an | | | |
| |elementary school and every town of 100 | |Needless to say, all of these | |
||or more families support a grammar | |institutions were strictly for men, and | |
| |school, where boys could learn Latin in | |primarily for white men ||
| |preparation for college. | | | |
| | | |Although few Americans of the...