-
The English High School opened in Boston
The English High School of Boston, Massachusetts is one of the first public high schools in America, founded in 1821. Originally called The English Classical School, it was renamed The English High School upon its first relocation in 1824. English High School of Boston -
Boston High School for Girls
Boston opened a High School for Girls in 1826 that closed within two years. -
Boston Girls High and Normal School opened
It was not until Boston Girls High and Normal School opened in 1857 that young women had the opportunity to attend a public secondary school. -
Civil War Begins
Civil War (1861–1865) -
Civil War Ends
Civil War (1861–1865) -
Diploma admission to colleges begins
The University of Michigan began diploma admission as early as 1871 -
Kalamazoo Case
The education tax question was resolved in 1872 when the Michigan Supreme Court (in what became known as the Kalamazoo Case) heard arguments for and against using taxes for secondary schools. The ruling favored tax support of public high schools, which subsequently became common practice throughout the United States. -
Carlisle Indian Industrial School opens
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) opened the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1879 -
Regional accrediting began
The New England Association of Schools and Colleges was founded in 1885 and is the oldest of the six regional accrediting agencies servicing the United States in the early twenty-first century. -
The Committee of Ten
National Education Association sponsored the Committee of Ten in 1892. The Committee of Ten recommended a rigorous academic curriculum for all students, regardless of their future plans, and elucidated the pursuit of knowledge and training of the intellect as the mission of secondary schools. -
Plessy v. Ferguson - separate but equal
The separate but equal doctrine elucidated in the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 -
Cummings v. School Board of Richmond County, Georgia
In an 1899 decision (Cummings v. School Board of Richmond County, Georgia), the Supreme Court decided that school boards were not required to provide public secondary education for African Americans. -
College Entrance Examination Board began
The College Entrance Examination Board came into existence in 1899 with the goal of providing uniform examinations for college admission. -
The Carnegie Foundation was founded
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a nonprofit corporation founded in 1906, developed the Carnegie unit as a measure of the amount of time a student had studied a subject. One Carnegie unit was equivalent to 120 hours of contact time, and fourteen units was established as the minimum for an academic high school course of study. -
Only 8.8% of 17yr olds went to High School
In 1910, 8.8 percent of seventeen-year-olds were in high school -
First Junior High Schools appeared
The first junior high schools, grades seven through nine, were established in California and Ohio around 1910. -
World War I Begins
World War I (1914–1918) -
Cardinal Principles of Education
This report, released in 1918 and authored by the NEA's Committee on the Reorganization of Secondary Education, did not emphasize intellectual skills or the standard school subjects. Rather, the committee recommended that secondary education focus on health, the command of fundamental processes, worthy home membership, vocation, citizenship, worthy use of leisure time, and ethical character. -
World War I Ends
World War I (1914–1918) -
Now 30% of 17yr olds in High School
In 1930, almost 30 percent of seventeen-year-olds were in high school -
World War II begins
World War II begins 1939 -
World War II ends
World War II ends 1945 -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
1954 In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down the Plessy v. Ferguson separate but equal ruling, arguing that the separation of children in public schools by race violates the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Federal troops in Little Rock
In 1957 federal troops had to be called into Little Rock, Arkansas, so that nine black students could attend the previously all-white Central High School. -
Sputnik
The launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 instigated loud cries for educational reform. -
National Defense Education Act
As a result of Sputnik, the National Defense Education Act that was passed in 1958 provided financial aid to states for the improvement of the teaching of science, mathematics, and foreign languages. -
A Nation at Risk
A Nation at Risk, a report from the National Commission on Excellence in Education, published in 1983, directly tied the quality of American schooling to the strength and position of the American economy in the global marketplace. A Nation at Risk galvanized the United States into forming higher academic standards. -
Conflict Resolution programs begin
The Clark County (Las Vegas) Social Service School Mediation Program (conflict resolution) in Nevada, during 1992 -
No Child Left Behind
The reauthorization of the national Elementary and Secondary Education Act, known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 -
IDEA 2004
2004 - H.R. 1350, The Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act (IDEA 2004),
