New England Colonies
Were established by an official act of a town to provide an elementary education to all children of the town.
What are town schools?
It was not until 1754 that the first institution of higher education opened in the colony. It was the first law school.
What is Kings College, now Columbia University?
They asserted that it was the responsibility of parents to educate their children, not the government.
What is the Church of England?
Were sparse during this time because people learned trades from their parents or through their employers so there was no need for those types of schools.
What are Vocational Schools?
Students learned their basic lessons from these. They were written on a sheet of parchment, placed on a wooden board, and covered with a thin sheath of cow’s horn for protection.
What are hornbooks?
Prior to the Revolution more colleges were founded there than in any other colony.
What is New Jersey?
They received little to no education unless you were with a certain group.
What are women?
By 1760 this subject accounted for 20% of the students' time.
What are scientific subjects?
This was established in 1636, it was the first college in the America colonies.
What is Harvard College?
He advocated for free public education in Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
The only institution of higher education established in the South prior to the Revolutionary War.
What is College of William and Mary?
These cities housed the most secondary schools in the Colonial Period.
What is Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Charleston?
This ordered every township of 50 households to provide a teacher to teach reading and writing, and all townships of 100 or more households to establish a grammar school.
What is the Education Law of 1647?
Established a number of elementary schools, including the first nursery school in the colonies, a boarding school for girls, and were active in efforts to Christianize and educate the Native Americans.
Who are The Moravians?
It was the most active of the Southern colonies in attempting to ensure the education of apprenticed children, especially orphaned children.
What is Virginia?
This religious group was the first to start the first public school in Boston?
Who are that Puritans?
Secondary Grammer Schools required students to have a proficiency in these languages for admission.
A number of private secondary schools were opened during the later colonial period which offered a variety of practical subjects.
What are (any of the following):
navigation, gauging, accounting, geometry, trigonometry, surveying, French, and Spanish.
The writing and dame schools began to give way to these schools.
What are Town Schools?
Most southern colonial children were taught at home because of this.
What is the distance between schools and plantations?