The Study On The American Family Education In The Progressive Era

American children are enthusiastic, independent, adaptable and creative, this kind of character is accompanied by the growth of a child’s life, which is closely linked with family education. The family education plays an important role in the education system. During the colonial period, the arrival of colonists brought the more advanced education than it in the North America. With the social development and universal education, family education is advancing and improving step by step. The American family education experienced several stages of change through agricultural society to industrial society, the social change had a great impact on family education during the Progresssive Movement. Family and family education have taken corresponding changes to meet the social situation and pressure.American family education is under attact, weaking their traditional fuctions, due to the Compulsory School Attendance Act and gradually Complete school education system. Family education had to change their children’s education and contract to deal with this change so that American parents and their children’s thinking and consciosness and social maintain basic synchronization. That makes the family education not being overly weakened in the edcation system. As the development of social economic to provide women more opportunities to work, the improvement of their educational level and the change of their social status, women’s status change in the family, which impact on their children’s education directly. Meanwhile, single-families and stepfamilies make the situation of family education more complex. Increase access to education, so the proportion of parents family education continues to improve, the number of highly educated parents is increasing, which has played a positive impact on family education. In addition, black families and immigrant families also make American family education showing a trend of diversification.The changes of the American family education in the Progressive Era were related with the Progressive Movement, which political restructuring, economic reform and improving social security provides a good environment for the development of the American family education. American families in the Progressive Era have quality education and training of American citizens, the United States played a role in promoting social development, but at the same time, some shortcomings and deficiencies which exist, we also need to face and avoidance.