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supervision  

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  • Supervision can be traced throughout the evolution of education in the United States from the enactment of the 1642 “ye olde deluder Satan Act” to the present reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The earliest forms of educational supervision were tied to religious control and then to secular interests, traced to the provisions in the Massachusetts Act of 1642, which required New Hampshire parents and masters to teach children reading, citizenship, and religion as a way to promote religious freedom, capital laws, as well as social harmony. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration; Supervision]

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