-
Northwest Ordinance was an act of the congress of the confederation. The land ordinance of 1785 set forth how the government of the United States would measure, divide and distribute the land it had acquired from Great Britain north and west of the Ohio River at the end of the American Revolution.
-
Oldest school in the U.S by the town of Boston. It has taught its scholars dissent with responsibility and has persistently encouraged such dissent.
http://www.bls.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=206116&type=d -
First College in American colonies founded in 1636. It was named after John Harvard.
http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history/historical-facts -
After this Law was passed, they hired a schoolmaster to teach local children. The burden of education was shifted from the parents to the local community.
http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-law-of-1642-the-old-deluder-satan-act-us-public-education.html -
It was textbook used by students in New England and other English settlements in North America.
https://www3.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/neprimer.html -
Feared that black literacy would prove a threat to the slave system.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/docs1.html -
The new building opened up.
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/acad_curric.html -
This book, first published in 1783, was a very popular textbook for young children in the nineteenth century.
http://www.teachushistory.org/node/357 -
First school in the country founded to provide young women with an education comparable to that of college educated young men.
-
Eventually renamed The English High school upon its first relocation in 1824. The current building is located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
-
A normal school is a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers.
-
Passed a law for all grade levels to have public school.
-
He is often called the Father of the Common School, began his career as a lawyer and legislator. When he was elected to act as Secretary of the newly-created Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837, he used his position to enact major educational reform.
-
The first state funded school specifically established for public teacher education (what ... Horace Mann was named the first secretary on June 29, 1837.
-
The Germans immigrants created the first kindergarten in America. A small Wisconsin community in 1855 has been credited as being the first in the United States.
-
An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds of federal land sales.
-
In 1875 a lawsuit was filed in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to collect public funds for the support of a village high school. The town had used taxes to support the school
-
The doctrine was confirmed in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation.
-
First junior high
-
Was an act of the United States Congress that promoted vocational agriculture to train people "who have entered upon or who are preparing to enter upon the work of the farm," and provided federal funds for this purpose.
-
Progressive educators believed that a new education program, based on the development of cooperative social skills, critical thinking and democratic behaviors, could play a pivotal role in transforming a society of greed, individualism, waste and corruption for one based on compassion, humanism and equality (Rippa 1997).
-
The New Deal was a series of programs, including, most notably, Social Security, that were .... Upon accepting the 1932 Democratic nomination for president, Franklin Roosevelt promised "a new deal for the American people".
-
Also called Servicemen's Readjustment Act, U.S. legislation passed in 1944 that provided benefits to World War II veterans.
-
Was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
-
Was signed into law on September 2, 1958, providing funding to United States education institutions at all levels.
-
Scientific and political history was made on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union of equipment to strengthen science, math, and foreign language instruction.
-
Administered by the Department of labor
-
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was passed as a part of United States.The act was originally authorized through 1965; however, the government has reauthorized the act every five years since its enactment.
-
United States federal legislation that recognized the needs of Limited English Speaking Ability (LESA) students.
-
1972 protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities.
-
he Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a four-part (A-D) piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that is tailored to their individual needs.
-
In 1953, the Federal Security Agency was upgraded to cabinet-level status as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
-
Was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students.
-
This study examines the effects of Obama's Race to the Top on education policymaking around the country
