Today public school is open to everyone: religious background, ethnicity, social status.. Our nation did not start out this way however, during the 1700s schooling was for the elites and no one else. As life in the United States kept rolling on through, ideology changed towards education when the turn of the century happened everyone in the 1800s came to the notion that all must be educated to x extent in order for their well being. In comparison, we have also segregation in the education system going by age now, as to the one room school house of the day. We can blame psychology for this, as information has been proven that certain ages only have mental capacity instead of everyone being an adult mentally while not fully grown physically. While schools became public, head-start wasn't for the public until the Johnson administration with his domestic policy of Great Society.
There has been many debates on schools and the education of students. Even to the beginning of the United States, where nothing in the Constitution truly brings up whose role it is to financially distribute funding towards education (federal or state). There was and still is debate on when children should start receiving education, which in today's age the earlier the better. The idea that teachers should get paid on performance of their students academic test scores, is now starting to be enforced around the United States.
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