Back to the Basics, a project from Mrs. Bullard (2024)

FAQs

What was the back-to-basics movement and why was it needed? ›

Proponents urged more emphasis on basic subjects, particularly reading, writing, and arithmetic, but also science, history, geography, and grammar. They wanted schools not only to teach content but also to help children learn to work hard. They wanted the schools to demand more orderly and disciplined student behavior.

During the 1990s, teaching and learning were transformed by the increasing power of multimedia computers, broadband networks, and significant improvements in design and delivery of pedagogical content via electronic means.

Educational essentialism is an educational philosophy whose adherents believe that children should learn the traditional basic subjects thoroughly. In this philosophical school of thought, the aim is to instill students with the "essentials" of academic knowledge, enacting a back-to-basics approach.

In California, for example, the Legislature unanimously passed an “ABC bill” ordering the state to reform its textbooks so that children are taught the core skills of reading, spelling and math.

Passed in Congress and signed on August 30, 1890, the Second Morrill Act included the stipulation that African Americans were to be included in the United States Land-Grant University Higher Education System without discrimination.

The bleak picture of public education—violence, low scores on standardized tests, run-down school buildings—convinced many parents to explore other education options for their children. These alternatives included homeschooling, charter schools, and school vouchers.

increased instructional technology: classrooms, schools, and students use computers more often today than in the past for research, writing, communicating, and keeping records. Technology has created new ways for students to learn (for example, this textbook would not be possible without Internet technology!).

Education reform in the mid-1800s movement sought to provide a free and efficient school system for all citizens and was dedicated to responsible citizenship and moral education.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is the main education law for public schools in the United States. The law holds schools accountable for how students learn and achieve. ESSA aims to provide an equal opportunity for disadvantaged students, including those who get special education.

busing, in the United States, the practice of transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts as a means of rectifying racial segregation.

What was the idea behind the common school movement? ›

The common schools movement was the effort to fund schools in every community with public dollars, and is thus heralded as the start of systematic public schooling in the United States. The movement was begun by Horace Mann, who was elected secretary of the newly founded Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837.