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The Association of American's Universities is founded to promote higher standards and put U.S universities on an equal footing with their European counterparts.
The Association of American Universities is founded to promote higher standards and put U.S. universities on an equal footing with their European counterparts. -
Youth Program began in Ohio. ( 4-H )
A youth program begun in Ohio "is considered the birth of 4-H." With the passage of the Smith-Lever Act in 1914, 4-H becomes a national program for positive youth development. -
Mary McLeod Bethune school
Mary McLeod Bethune, an African American educator, founds the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona Beach, Florida. It merges with the Cookman Institute in 1923 and becomes a coeducational high school, which eventually evolves into Bethune-Cookman College, now Bethune-Cookman University. -
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
It is charted by an act of Congress in 1906, the same year the Foundation encouraged the adoption of a standard system for equating "seat time" (the amount of time spent in a class) to high school credits. Still in use today, this system came to be called the "Carnegie Unit." -
The Smith-Hughes Act
The act passes, providing federal funding for agricultural and vocational education. It is repealed in 1997. -
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Tennessee VS.John Scopes
John Scopes a high school biology teacher is charged the heinous crime of teaching evolution, which is in violation of the Butler Act, The trial ends in Scopes' conviction. -
National School Lunch Act
The need for a permanent legislative basis for a school lunch program," the 79th Congress approved. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," thus overturning its previous ruling in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson. Brown v. Board of Education is actually a combination of five cases from different parts of the country. -
Act Administered
The ACT Test is first administered. -
First African American Ruby Bridges attended school
First grader Ruby Bridges is the first African American to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. She becomes a class of one as parents remove all Caucasian students from the school. -
Learning Disability
Samuel A. Kirk uses the term "learning disability" at a Chicago conference on children with perceptual disorders. The term sticks, and in 1964, the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, now the Learning Disabilities Association of America, is formed. Today, nearly one-half of all students in the U.S. who receive special education have been identified as having learning disabilities. -
John F. Kennedy Assinated
John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Schools close as the nation mourns its loss. Lyndon Johnson becomes president. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Part of Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," it provides federal funds to help low-income students, which results in the initiation of educational programs such as Title I and bilingual education. -
First hand-held calculator
Texas Instruments introduces the first in its line of electronic hand-held calculators, the TI-2500 Data Math. TI becomes an industry leader known around the world. -
Last Ivy League School
Dartmouth becomes the last of the Ivy League schools to begin admitting women. -
University of Phoenix
The University of Phoenix establishes their "online campus," the first to offer online bachelor's and master's degrees. It becomes the "largest private university in North America." -
Teach for America
Teach for America is formed, reestablishing the idea of a National Teachers Corps. -
Charter School
Minnesota passes the first "charter school" law. -
Smart Board Invented
The smart board (interactive white board) is introduced by SMART Technologies. -
CompuHigh Whitmorte
claims to be the first online high school.
