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The first school was opened in Virgina in 1635 -
Harvard the first college became established -
A movement that allowed students to go to school for free no matter their background or social class.
Here is an article about it:
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/common-school-movement -
over 75% of the teachers were women but they could not be administrators. https://thewesterncarolinajournalist.com/2016/05/04/the-history-of-women-as-teachers/#:~:text=The%201890s%20through%20the%201910s%20was%20a%20period,like%20benefits%20and%20job%20security%20were%20nearly%20nonexistent. -
African Americans were allowed in schools, but they were segregated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson -
Took away segregation in schools but still took awhile to implicate into the systems.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Brown-v-Board-of-Education-of-Topeka -
Standards were set in each grade level for students and teachers to meet.
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