The Development of American Schools.

It is surprising that schools haven’t changed much in the last 2 hundred years.  Ever since the industrial revolution, students have been attending a school system very familiar to us today.  Before the industrial revolution parents were the primary providers for education.  Some would send their children to a one room school where they would learn information with a variety of educational levels.  Sometimes one room schools were not available.  In that case students would not receive adequate education. 

This chapter also hit a little close to home.  My grandma attended a Normal School in Wisconsin to get her teaching license and taught in a one room school very close to the house I grew up in.  She was working in the one room school where she met my grandpa.  When she got married she stopped working in the school to take care of the family. 

Horace Mann has done a lot for the education system.  He helped schools urbanize or move from many one room schools around the city to condense into one building.  He created the first school where one teacher taught one grade level.  This is something we take for granted now a day. 

Overall it is important to look at the history of one revolution to see what to expect in our future.  We are now entering into a time where the school system as we know it is about to change. Technology is consuming the world and school systems are working to stay afloat in the flood of technology.  This is the reason teachers need to keep up with technology in their classroom.  Teachers are not sure what the future is going to look like, and because of this we need to keep up with the times to make sure technology snowballs into something unable to maintain.