Week 1 reflection

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                                                                  Jake Stockling 

                                                          New Jersey City University 

                                  LETD380: Going Public: Literacy and History of American Education 

                                                                        Dr. Rosen

                                                                        July 3, 2024

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Reading both sections of the Common School I was able to understand how the Common School is formed. The school would receive funds from local properties taxes, but tuition was not charged. It was an all-white school. Boys were more favored over girls. Also, charged parental fees to support the towns. Free education was held at the church charity schools. If the parents wanted to extend their child’s education they’d hire personal tutors. Toddlers were sent to “dame schools”.  For those who do not know what “dame school” is it’s a very small school, privately ran for children from ages two to five. Charity schools were for the less fortunate, so they were a separate group. They were governed by independent boards that was not a part of the government. In the first half of the twentieth century people aimed for the schools to do better. Such as teaching the skills and knowledge that would prepare the children for democratic industrial society. Some education experts were debating if the new students should take a standard academic curriculum. Most of the student’s immigrants or the children of immigrants. I selected “school” for the word category because it gave me an understanding of about the Common School. Mainly because it’s the section of the title as well. I chose the sentence “These arrangements meant that family wealth, race, and gender had a strong impact on how much formal education a child received.” I chose that because it stood out to me the most. It makes me look further into the reading about the families wealth, race, and gender. On page 14 I was able to find out that the charity schools targeted the poor class as a separate group. In New York and Philadelphia charity schools were organized into supervised systems. Lastly, I used “social change” as the phrase because it’s issues that are impacted a larger number of people in society. The group of shared problems in modern day society. Which a lot of individuals groups can work on to solve issues. Group 3 and I ranked each word, phrase, and sentence to rank which one was the most important out of all of them.