Explain the difference between universal education and comprehensive education in the history of American education

What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER: Suggested answer: Universal education is the concept that all people have a right to be educated. Early in American history, only upper-class white males were educated. Gradually, during the 1800s, the common school was instituted, in which white children of town residents could obtain a grammar school education. During different stages of American history, universal education became more inclusive of groups previously excluded: women, African Americans, Native Americans, and the disabled. A comprehensive education is an education that includes both the traditional curriculum for college preparation and training for trades. The need for comprehensive education was first seen during the nineteenth century, and the comprehensive high school was founded to address the needs of students requiring job training and college preparatory studies.

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