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◈Educational inequity.
◈Slaves were not allowed to learn how to read or write.
Southern Colonies
◈It was a public elementary school.
◈One-room structure.
Town School
◈Introduced many practical and manual skills into the formal curriculum: carpentry, engraving, printing, painting, farming, bookkeeping, etc.
Academies
◈Latin was a requirement to study at Harvard.
◈Practices implemented in Massachusetts are considered the bases of the public school system.
New England
◈No common religion nor language was taught.
◈Inhabited by groups from different religious and ethnic backgrounds.
Mid-Atlantic
◈Focused on religion.
◈Upper class: Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Studying the Bible and the primer.
Parochial and private schools
◈ Subjects like Greek, rhetoric, and logic.
◈ It was just focused on boys. (Girls could not study)
Latin Grammar schools
◈ Students who graduated from the Latin Grammar schools, had the possibility to go to Harvard, or Yale University.
Colleges