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1785,1787 Land Ordinance Act, Northwest Ordinance
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. -
1635 Boston Latin Grammar School
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.
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1636 Harvard College
First College in American colonies founded in 1636. It was named after John Harvard.
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1647 Old Deluder Satan Law
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.
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1687-1890 New England Primer published
It was textbook used by students in New England and other English settlements in North America.
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1740 South Carolina denies education to blacks
Feared that black literacy would prove a threat to the slave system.
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1751 Opening of the Franklin Academy in Philadelphia
The new building opened up.
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1783 Noah's Webster American spelling book
This book, first published in 1783, was a very popular textbook for young children in the nineteenth century.
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1821 Emma Willard's Troy female Seminary opens, first endowed..
First school in the country founded to provide young women with an education comparable to that of college educated young men. -
1821 First public high school opens in Boston
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1823 First (private) normal school opens in Vermont
A normal school is a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers. -
1827 Massachusetts requires public high school
Passed a law for all grade levels to have public school. -
1837 Horace Mann becomes secretary of board of education in Massachusetts
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. -
1839 First public normal school in Lexington, Massachusetts (Horace Mann)
The first state funded school specifically established for public teacher education (what ... Horace Mann was named the first secretary on June 29, 1837. -
1855 First kindergarten (German language) in United States
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. -
1862 Morrill Land Grant College Act
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. -
1874 Kalamazoo case (legalizes taxes for high schools)
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 -
1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision supporting racially separate but equal schools
The doctrine was confirmed in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation. -
1909 First junior high school in Berkeley, California
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1917 Smith-Hughes Act(fund vocational classes)
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. -
1919 Progressive education programs
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). -
1932 New Deal education programs
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". -
1944 G.I. Bill of Rights
Also called Servicemen's Readjustment Act, U.S. legislation passed in 1944 that provided benefits to World War II veterans. -
1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in schools
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. -
1957 Sputnik leads to increased federal education funds
Was signed into law on September 2, 1958, providing funding to United States education institutions at all levels. -
1958 National Defense Education Act (NDEA) funds science, math, and foreign language programs
Scientific and political history was made on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union of equipment to strengthen science, math, and foreign language instruction. -
1964-1965 Job Corps and Head Start are funded
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1965 Elementary and Secondary Act (ESEA)
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. -
1968 Bilingual Education Act
United States federal legislation that recognized the needs of Limited English Speaking Ability (LESA) students. -
1972 Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in schools
1972 protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities. -
1975, 1991---Public Law 94-142, Education for All Handicapped Children Act (renamed the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act), is passed (IDEA)
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. -
1979 Cabinet-level Department of Education is established
In 1953, the Federal Security Agency was upgraded to cabinet-level status as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. -
2001 No Child Left Behind Act calls for state standards and annual testing (President George Bush)
Was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. -
2009 Race to the Top (President Barack Obama)
This study examines the effects of Obama's Race to the Top on education policymaking around the country
