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The average lifetime school attendance less than 82 days.
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Proposed a Bill that would require all non-slave students to attend school for 3 years.
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Created the Blue backed speller. It was designed to teach the students about the United States.
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Advocated higher education for woman
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Believed education was important for democracy and that teachers should be considered professionals.
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Wanted city funds for Catholic schools. Led to the great school debates.
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Published "A Treatise on Domestic Economy". Believed a woman's proper role was at home.
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Believed that education could bring freedom to all.
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Became archbishop and founded Catholic schools.
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In Massachusetts schools became integrated after a law was passed banning segregation.
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Only 6% of 17 year old graduated high school. 50% of children were in school an average of 5 years.
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Wanted students to move around and have a rich school experience. He helped found The Gary Plan/Work-Study.
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Over 2 million children were working across America.
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put The Gary plan into action in 30 New York schools, which drove to violent controversy.
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former President, called for English only curriculum.
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35 states required instruction in English only.
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pioneered the use of the school survey as an instrument to improve education.
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John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in violation of Tennessee law.
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Established legitimacy of parochial and private schools.
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Law banned child labor and made it mandatory for children to attend school until at least age 16.
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Popularized IQ testing in the classroom. Believed that intelligence test could help better America.
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Ruled that students can not be forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance due to the first Amendment.
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Court declared separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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Central High school called for the National Guard to escort students to class after huge controversy over desegregation.
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Led fight to ban IQ test in Los Angeles.
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Public schools are no longer allowed to have prayer services during school hours
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Believed education an equal chance at education meant an equal chance at life.
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Ruled that the Bible could not be read in schools unless used as a piece of literature.
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Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Set to strengthen education resources and increase federal funds.
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Provided funding for language Iinstruction
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Helped empower Chicano students draw a list of demands to the school board demanding equal rights.
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Students have the right to express their opinion on controversial issues as long as it does not disrupt the educational process.
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Became a lawful remedy for segregation.
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Test used to determine whether or not we are entangled in religion.
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91% of Southern black children attended integrated schools.
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Modeled after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It prohibited federal grants to schools or programs that discriminated on basis of gender.
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Teaching materials were printed in nearly 70 different languages.
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Filed law suit charging the government with failure to enforce Title IX.
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Education for All Handicapped Children Act is passed
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Junior High students in East Harlem were allowed to choose students whether alternative or regular school.
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Report of President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education. It contributed to the assertion that American schools were failing.
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Standardized test adopted for each grade level.
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Allowed for schools to reprimand and punish students for lewd or indecent behavior if it disrupted the learning environment.
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States that administrators are to monitor and control the content of all school sponsored publications and activities.
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George Bush allowed vouchers for low income students to attend private schools at tax paying expense.
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Students claimed that the state failed to adequately fund programs for English language learners.
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It was declared that vouchers for religious schools violated the separation of Church & State.
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Charter schools in Arizona become a new form of public education.
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I started kindergarten at Avondale elementary school.
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Two Columbine High School students go on a killing spree that leaves 15 dead and 23 wounded at the Littleton, Colorado school, making it the nations' deadliest school shooting incident. Schools tighten safety procedures as a result of the Columbine massacre.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the district's policy of allowing student-led prayer prior to football games violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
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Mandates high-stakes student testing, holds schools accountable for student achievement levels, and provides penalties for schools that do not make adequate yearly progress toward meeting the goals of NCLB.
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Provides more than 90-billion dollars for education, nearly half of which goes to local school districts to prevent layoffs and for school modernization and repair.
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I graduated from Trevor Browne high school.
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The Minnesota State High School League votes on December 4 to adopt a policy allowing transgender students to join female sports teams.
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The federal government tells school districts "to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity." Though the directive is not a law, districts that do not comply could face lawsuits or lose federal aid.
