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Johann Amos Comenius
Johann Comenius wrote one of the first picture books, "The World In Pictures", which presented vocabulary and even examples -
Johann Friederich Oberlin
Johann Friederich Oberlin founded a school program that allowed children under the age of six -
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi converted his home to a school for kids that came from poor families -
Friedrich Froebel
Fredrich Froebel founder kindergarten or "the childrens garden" in Germany for childeran ages seven and down -
Margarethe Schurz
Margarette Schurz founded first American kindergarten in her home in the state of Wisconsin, though it was taught in German -
Elizabeth Peabody
Elizabeth Peabody founded first kindergarten that was taught in English in the United States -
William T. Harris
William T Harris opened first kindergarten in public school system, in St Louis -
John Dewey
John Dewey founded laboratory school at the University of Chicago, which emphasized that children need to move around freely in order to learn -
Hull House
When the nation's most influential settlement house in Chicago was expanded in 1907, many programs were added including a nursery and kindergarten class -
Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori published, "Pedagogical Anthropology", a forerunner to statistical assessments in childhood development -
Susan Isaacs
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 -
Brown vs The Board of Education of Topeka
Brown vs The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas paved the way for the desegregation of United States schools -
Head Start
President Lyndon Johnson announced Project Head Start for children from low-income families -
Kindercare
Kinder-Care Nursery Schools (which was the name at the time) was founded by Perry Mendel, which became a huge success -
Even Start Family Literacy Program was founded
The Even Start Program is a federally funded program that provides a literacy program for both parents and children to promote child success -
Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 was passed
CCDBG Act allows flexibility in State to develop child care programs that best suit the needs of child and parent(s) -
Stand For Children was founded
Stand For Children is a non-profit group that organizes around changes in public education -
Children's Health Insurance Program
Hillary Clinton, with the help of her team, was able to pass the CHIP. -
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was passed
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. -
Early Education for All
President Obama called on Congress to expand access to high quality preschools for children in America
