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1636
Harvard college has its beginnings in a seminary. -
1700
Quacker school for black students is established in Philadelphia. -
1821
Boston's English High School opens with 102 students. The school is the first tuition free public high school. -
1917
Congress passes the Smith-Hughes acts. Allowing funds for education below the college level. -
1923
Classrooms being incorporating radios into penmanship accounting, history and arithmetic lessons. -
1930
Overhead projectors came into use. -
1931
A sex education program is introduced citywide in Chicago. -
1933
52% of schools are using silent films. -
1939
First TV appears in a classroom -
1946
The US congress approves the national school lunch act. -
1954
US supreme court rules schools segregated by race are unequal and therefore unconstitutional. -
1961
The teacher of deaf act is enacted -
1966
The school breakfast program pilot is launched. -
1967
Texas instruments develops the handheld instruments. -
1976
Expansion of the Emergency School aid act provides federal funding for the planning and implementation of magnet schools. -
1979
US department of education is established under the department of Education Organization Act -
1980
US spending on education reaches 151.5 billion -
1985
Touch typing software is introduced. -
1988
Laptops are introduced and are eventually utilized as touching tools. -
1990
CD-Roms become a predominant form of storage. -
1991
SMART boards are introduced in schools -
1993
Education Act of 1986 is expanded to mandate biological education about HIV, AIDS, and sexually transmitted diseases in public schools. -
1994
Proposition 187 passes California making it illegal for children of undocumented immigrants to attend school. -
1996
Children of baby boomers swell school enrollments to a record 51.7 million students. -
2012
1.5 Million Ipads are used in school.
