Е.В. Астапенко

PRECONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION IN THE USA IN THE XVIII - XIX CENTURIES

Authors

Е.В. Астапенко

Keywords:

school education, immigrants, ethnos, multinational composition of schoolchildren, Declaration of Independence, B. Franklin, T. Jefferson, H. Mann, the bureau of national education, the law on compulsory universal primary education, G. Barnard

Abstract

Specific features of the development of school education in the USA are described. It is stressed that American population is neither homogeneous in ethnic nor in race structure. Besides, never-ending migration of the population creates additional problems both for the entire country and the school education of the migrants’ children in particular. In the article peculiarities of the functioning of first schools, founded on the territory of the USA by immigrants from the Europe are mentioned. Deserts of the first American presidents in the sphere of development and foundation of the school education are emphasized. A number of documents devoted to the first educational reforms are mentioned in the article. First curricula are also mentioned. Horace Mann - the first chairman of the Committee on the educational , the member of the Senate from Massachusetts state played a very important role in the development of school education in the USA

PRECONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION IN THE USA IN THE XVIII - XIX CENTURIES