تطور التعليم العام في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية (1628-1983)‎ : دراسة تاريخية

Abstract EN

Education institutions in the United States have a good reputation worldwide, which makes researchers interested to discover the details of the education process in the most powerful country in the world in many fields.

this research aims to discover the most important historical events that the public education process in the united states went through and affected it from 1628 to 1983.

the researcher divided the historical stages in this study into six stages, according to the historical stages that k-12 education went through : the first historical stage : is the stage before independence.

the second stage relates to the period after the American revolution and independence until the end of the second decade of the nineteenth century.

the third historical stage is between 1820 and the outbreak of the civil war, and this period witnessed significant changes and the spread of primary education due to the efforts of the godfather of free education, horace mann.

the fourth stage presents the most prominent incidents and changes between the end of the civil war and the events that followed, the most prominent of which was the ending of slavery in the country until the end of the nineteenth century.

moreover, the fifth stage: the essential details of the education process, emerged in the first half of the twentieth century, which witnessed an increase in school enrollment for all ethnicities, including blacks.

the last historical stage covers the period from 1951 to 1983 and its details, including the most critical educational laws and supreme court rulings that affected the history of public education in the United States.