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The Massachusetts Law of 1647
This law made it able for towns to hire schoolmasters who would teach the towns children. With this law, it made sure that the children learned how to read and write. It created a education to try an prepare students for college. -
New England Primer is Printed
This is the first official school book that was widely used throughout the New England Schools. Without the New England Primer, education in America could have been different with different books being used throughout America. -
The Young Ladies Academy
Ladies were not respected at this time. This open doors to many possibilities for women. This was the First academy for girls in the first 13 colonies. Women weren't able to do much, especially in schools. That is why this was a big jump in them moving up in the world and not being stay at home wife's. -
First Public High School
Transferring from religious focused schools to being public schools. This was the first public high school. Now our nation is dominated by public schools, this was the first of many, and has led to what we have nowadays in our country. This gave choices to people to no have to go to privates schools if they didn't have the money or just didn't believe in the religion. -
Civil Rights Act
Banning segregation was a huge step forward for our country. It was something that was around for so long, and finally the opportunity for blacks and whites to be able to go to school together was a major step in the right direction. It's still a problem in america today with racism and all, but this made it so that each race had the "same" education in public schools.
