History of Education

Mutual instruction classrooms were large, carefully designed schoolrooms in which children taught one another under the eye of a single

The bell and school timetables that structure a modern school day feel so ordinary that few people stop to ask

The Lancaster monitor system was one of the most talked-about school designs of the early nineteenth century, promising to teach

Mass literacy campaigns are organized national efforts to teach large numbers of adults and young people to read and write

Compulsory schooling laws are now so common that most people take them for granted, yet the idea that the state

Factory Acts and education became tied together in nineteenth-century Britain, when Parliament first tried to limit child labor in mills

Industrial Revolution schooling took shape in a world where children worked in mills, mines and workshops long before most of

Normal schools development is the story of how teaching became something people trained for rather than something they simply took

Belle Epoque teacher training refers to the way European countries, and France above all, prepared elementary teachers between the early

The one room schoolhouse system was the backbone of rural education in the United States for much of the nineteenth