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This act decreed that every town of 50 families or more needs to hire a schoolmaster who would teach the town's children to read and write.
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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Academy, an educational institution
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individual states have control over education
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James Pillians invented the blackboard
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Christopher Sholes invented the modern typewriter.
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A standardized high school curriculum was formed by the National Education
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Mass-produced pencils and paper
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Joliet Junior College in Joliet, Illinois, opened
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SAT was produced and published by the college board
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David Wechsler developed the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
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the computer was built for the U.S. military by Presper Eckert and John Mauchly
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The United States Supreme Court passes the case, Brown v. Board of Education, which makes segregated schools illegal.
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Everett Fraklin made the ACT for the competition to the SAT
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computers were first used in New York in elementary school
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At William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Ruby Bridges, a first-grader, was the first African American child to attend
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the Scantron Corporation removed the need to grade multiple-choice tests by hand
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the whiteboard was invented because of students allergies to chalkboard dust.
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made to produce report cards
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The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was approved by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush in January of 2002
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The Common Core State Standards Initiatives is launched which details what K-12 students should know at the end of the year.
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in 2006 the percent of teens using networking was 55%
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percent was at 16%
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in 2007 it was at 60%
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Adults in 2007 were using 26% of social networking sites
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in 2008 it was 65%
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in 2008 it was at 29%
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percent was 73%
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in 2009 teens were using 8% of twitter
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in 2009 it was at 47%
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In 2011 adults used 12% of Twitter
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in 2011 and 2012 tablet sales exploded 340%
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percent was 16%
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percent was 16%
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percent was 24%
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85% of adults using the internet