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The Association of American Universities is founded to promote higher standards and put U.S. universities on an equal footing with their European counterparts.
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Education
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A youth program began in Ohio
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Mary McLeod Bethune,an African American educator, founds the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is founded
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The Smith-Hughes Act passes, providing federal funding for agricultural and vocational education
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Tennessee vs. John Scopes ("the Monkey Trial") captures national attention as John Scopes, a high school biology teacher, is charged with the heinous crime of teaching evolution
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the National School Lunch Act.
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Brown v. Board. of Education of Topeka, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," thus overturning its previous ruling in the 1896
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The ACT Test is first administered.
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-First grader Ruby Bridges is the first African American to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Schools close as the nation mourns its loss. Lyndon Johnson becomes president
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Samuel A. Kirk uses the term "learning disability"
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The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
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Last Ivy League A School
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First Hand Held Calculator
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University of Phoenix
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Teach for America
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Charter School
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Smart Board Invented
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Computing Whitehorse
