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1900 American becoming an urban nation

By Jiawen Rao

  • 1910

    1910
    1910 two million children were working across American

  • 1920

    1920
    Lewis Terman creat intelligence test (IQ test)

  • 1920

    1920
    1920 over a million children were being tested each year

  • 1970

    1970
    1970 school opens to everyone in US

  • 1972

    1972
    1972 Title IX closely modeled after the Civil Rights Act

  • 1974

    1974
    1974 bilingual education got a boost from the US supreme court

  • 1974

    1974
    1974 the federal government published new teaching materials in nearly 70 languages and allocated 68 million dollars for bilingual programs

  • 1997

    1997
    In 1997, Congress approved $80 million to aid in the construction of new charter schools.

  • 2000-2001

    2000-2001
    2000-2001 charter schools run by for-profit companies