History of Education

  • Webster Published the Blue and Black Speller

    This taught about the U.S and its inhabitants
  • Horrace Mann Found a School System Built on Inequality and Wrote About It

    We then got free tax supported education for all the kids in the northern states
  • Great School Debate

    They wanted to take religion out of schools
  • Philidelphia Bible Riots

    13 people dead and catholic church burned down to the ground.
  • Protest Against the Boston School Committee

    A Group of nearly 90 African Americans drew up a petition against the Boston school committee. This called for immediate end of segregation in city's public schools.
  • Brown V. Board

    Case that finally launched desegregation in American public schools
  • Immigrants moved to the United States

    School was the place where the American dream was nurtured and the future started to shape
  • Immigrants Were Americanized

    John Itylan concealed the "Gary Plan" in school which is when people only wanted English schools
  • IQ tests were Introduced

    Questions that measured the mental fitness more than the academic achievements
  • Child Labor Banned

    United States required school attendance until at least 16 years of age
  • Launch of Spunik

    U.S lost the space race to Russia. The government blamed the schools so because of this they focus on math and science in schools more
  • Civil Rights Act

    Discrimination was banned in all public schools federally
  • Elementary and Secondary Act

    Provided at least $4 million aid to disadvantaged students
  • Title IX

    Prohibited federal grants to schools and programs based on genders that discriminated
  • Bilingual Education

    Bilingual education got a boost from the Supreme Court. The federal government published new teaching materials for the bilingual programs.
  • The Choice Experiment

    Educators in East Harlem asked some of the best teachers in the district to create small alternative public schools within existing buildings
  • President Blamed Schools

    The president blamed civil rights enforcements for hurting basic education over 20 years. schools were charged by federal courts with leadings and correcting long standing injustice for our society
  • Vouchers

    Milwaukee supreme court allowed vouchers for students to attend schools of religion
  • EAI

    Baltimore hired Educational Alternatives Inc (EAI) to manage nine public schools.
  • Schools Approved and More Competition

    Congress approved $80 million to aid building new charter schools