History of American Academic Education

""This DVD traces the history of education in the U.S. It covers European influences; examines the colonial period; discusses the early impacts of Jefferson, Franklin, and Webster; considers the common school period, Horace Mann, Mary Lyon, compulsory education, African-American education, DuBois, Washington, and the Morrill Act; and profiles the progressive period. The program also examines changes in the modern period, including federal aid, racial integration, students' rights, and educational reform"--Distributor's webpage."
"This program explores instructional design, educational technology, curriculum development, organizational learning, special education, and classroom management. It outlines the cognitive, academic, social, and moral goals of learning; presents behavioral, cognitive, functionalist, and constructivist theories of learning; and looks at qualitative and quantitative methods of pedagogical analysis. The program also considers the effects of such factors as intelligence, motivation, reading level, culture, and disability on student comprehension and learning."@en