After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:
- Decide, explain, and defend the degree to which you believe it is possible to know, understand, and profit from the history of education. (INTASC 10: Collaboration)
- List and detail several of the most important improvements that have been made in the U.S. educational system over the past half century. (INTASC 2: Development and Learning)
- Explain important educational contributions that have been made during the last sixty years by private schools, the federal government, researchers, teacher organizations, teacher educators, and other groups that have helped to improve U.S. schools.
- List and explain several of the major ideas regarding the history of U.S. education.
- Explain why knowledge of the history of education is important to educators and how it might be used to improve education today.
