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Johann Comenius wrote one of the first picture books, "The World In Pictures", which presented vocabulary and even examples
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Johann Friederich Oberlin founded a school program that allowed children under the age of six
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi converted his home to a school for kids that came from poor families
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Fredrich Froebel founder kindergarten or "the childrens garden" in Germany for childeran ages seven and down
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Margarette Schurz founded first American kindergarten in her home in the state of Wisconsin, though it was taught in German
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Elizabeth Peabody founded first kindergarten that was taught in English in the United States
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William T Harris opened first kindergarten in public school system, in St Louis
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John Dewey founded laboratory school at the University of Chicago, which emphasized that children need to move around freely in order to learn
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When the nation's most influential settlement house in Chicago was expanded in 1907, many programs were added including a nursery and kindergarten class
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Maria Montessori published, "Pedagogical Anthropology", a forerunner to statistical assessments in childhood development
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Susan Isaacs founded The Department of Child Development at University of London to build on the ideas of Dewey, Freud and Piaget that were aimed at social and cognitive development
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Brown vs The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas paved the way for the desegregation of United States schools
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President Lyndon Johnson announced Project Head Start for children from low-income families
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Kinder-Care Nursery Schools (which was the name at the time) was founded by Perry Mendel, which became a huge success
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The Even Start Program is a federally funded program that provides a literacy program for both parents and children to promote child success
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CCDBG Act allows flexibility in State to develop child care programs that best suit the needs of child and parent(s)
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Stand For Children is a non-profit group that organizes around changes in public education
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Hillary Clinton, with the help of her team, was able to pass the CHIP.
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The act required that all public schools receiver federal funding to administer a state wide test to all students every year to improvee teaching skills.
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President Obama called on Congress to expand access to high quality preschools for children in America
