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510 BCE
Pythagoras Academy
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First "free" school
Boston Latin School would be the first "free" school in the United States, located in Boston, Massachusetts -
Harvard established
Harvard College was established in Newtowne, Massachusetts. -
Two Track education
Thomas Jefferson proposed two track education -
Blackboard
James Pillans invents the blackboard -
First government owned school
First government owned and operated school opened in Boston, named Boston English High School -
Hartford Female Seminary
Catharine Beecher founds Hartford Female Seminary, one of the first major institutions allowing females to get an education. -
Cheyney University
University made for African Americans -
Measurement Movement
This became what we know as an IQ test -
Indianola Junior High School
This was the first junior high school in the U.S. -
Radio
Classrooms begin incorporating the radio in their lessons -
S.A.T
The first Scholastic Aptitude Test (S.A.T) was administered in this year -
Projectors
Overhead projectors which were primarily used in the military are introduced into schools -
Television
The first tv appears in a classroom in LA -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public schools. -
Little Rock Nine
A group of nine African American students tried to enroll at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas but were met with an angry white mob -
National Defense Education Act
It was created to strengthen the education system through funds -
The Association for Children with Learning Disabilities
The Association for Children with Learning Disabilities was formed -
Head Start
Created to help preschool children who came from low income families -
Calculator
Texas Instruments develops the handheld calculator -
Title IX
This prohibited discrimination based on sex in all aspects of education -
Scantron
Automatically graded multiple choice examples -
Department of Education
This was the day that the Department of Education was founded -
Jaime Escalante
Escalante first gained media attention when 18 of his students passed the Advanced Placement Calculus exam. Since he taught in a rural area, many thought that the students had cheated. Twelve retook the test and had their scores reinstated -
A Nation at Risk report
This report called for all high school graduates to be able to understand and use computers -
Standards Movement
This told teachers what students should know in their grade -
The Apple Macintosh
The Apple Macintosh computer is developed. The ration of computers to students in US schools is 1 - 92 -
Laptops
laptops are developed and are eventually utilized as teaching tools -
CD-ROM
CD-ROM disks became the new kind of storage -
Internet Access
According to the National Center for Education Statistics about 35% of American public schools had Internet access -
SMART boards
SMART boards introduced in schools -
Columbine
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students and one teacher. -
No Child Left Behind
Created yearly assessment of students -
Computers in School
1 computer for every 5.3 students in US schools -
Sandy Hook Shooting
Shooting that took the lives of 20 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary. It was the second deadliest shooting by a single person in US history -
iPads
1.5 million iPads provided by schools -
Graduation Rates
Black students had only a 69% graduation rate and Hispanic students had a 73% rate, while Asian students had a 88% graduation rate and Caucasian students had an 86% rate. -
Mobile Tech
90% of students under the age of 18 have access to mobile technology
