History of Education in USA Research Paper

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Timeline

Intercollegiate Sports

Intercollegiate sports characterized by lawlessness, use of athletes past the college levels. College contests turned to commercial spectacles hence the need for structured approach to intercollegiate sports.

saw the formation of the baseball association.

there was the first intercollegiate tennis.

this year saw the inception of American Football.

there was the first Women's collegiate game. This was also the year of the first college basketball game.

there was the first intercollegiate competition

there was expression of maturing collegiate sports. Intercollegiate sports became more pronounced especially in the Northeast and Harvard constructed a spectator facility considered one of the best in that time.

1914 -- saw the construction of a 70,000 capacity spectator facility in Yale (State University, 2014).

Women's Colleges

The education of women from the initial years was faced with numerous challenges until the early 1800 when the deliberate efforts were made to have women colleges to boost women education.

1870 -- it was estimated that on average, a male teacher earned $35 a week while their female counterparts earned on average $12

1875- two colleges that focused on women were opened; the Smith College and Wellesley College.


1881 -- the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminar was commissioned.

1897 -- the National Congress of Mothers was formed

1910 -- by this time, the Women made up a significant 39% of college undergraduate and another 20% of college faculty (National Women's History Museum, 2014 ).

Women and Coeducation

The education of women in the schools and the colleges was an issue that was highly controversial with some colleges giving preference to the males and expressly indicating that the colleges are for males, though most did not expressly indicate that women were forbidden from studying in the school. By 1870s, most of the high schools were coeducational but there were more activities that saw a shift in the education system further n (Thelin, J.R., 2011).

1880s -- in the early years of 1880s there were expressed preference for male teachers with the fear that the female teachers in the coeducational institutions were feminizing their classes.

1890 -- this year saw the increase in the enrollment of high school aged children to a high of 51.4% from 6.7%.

1900 -- there were 50% of women enrolment in the business and.....

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