Education

By brendaskiess1

  • First Free School

    First Free School
    The first "free school" in Virginia opens. However, education in the Southern colonies is more typically provided at home by parents or tutors. This is very inportant because now students do not have to pay to go to school. This shaped the foundation for students everywhere and in the future.

  • Harvard Opens!

    Harvard College, the first higher education institution in what is now the United States, is established in Newtowne (now Cambridge), Massachusetts.

  • The Massachusetts Law of 1647

    The Massachusetts Law of 1647, also known as the Old Deluder Satan Act, is passed. It states for every town of at least 50 families hire a schoolmaster who would teach the town's children to read and write and that all towns of at least 100 families should have a Latin grammar school master who will prepare students to attend Harvard College.

  • First Library

    first public supported library is founded in the United States in Charles Town.

  • "English Academy"

    Benjamin Franklin helps to establish the first "English Academy" in Philadelphia with a curriculum that is both classical and modern, including such courses as history, geography, navigation, surveying, and modern as well as classical languages. The academy ultimately becomes the University of Pennsylvania.

  • the laboring and the learned

    Thomas Jefferson proposes a two-track educational system, with different tracks for "the laboring and the learned."

  • first academy for girls in America.

    The Young Ladies Academy opens in Philadelphia and becomes the first academy for girls in America.

  • First public High sc hool

    The first public high school, Boston English High School, opens .

  • High school law

    The state of Massachusetts passes a law requiring towns of more than 500 families to have a public high school open to all students.

  • The Carnegie Foundation

    The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is founded. It is charted by an act of Congress in 1906, the same year the Foundation encouraged the adoption of a standard system for equating "seat time" (the amount of time spent in a class) to high school credits. Still in use today, this system came to be called the "Carnegie Unit."

  • The Progressive Education Association

    The Progressive Education Association is founded with the goal of reforming American education.

  • Free bus transportation

    All states have laws providing funds for transporting children to school.

  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression begins with the stock market crash in October. The U.S. economy is devastated. Public education funding suffers greatly, resulting in school closings, teacher layoffs, and lower salaries.

  • Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972

    Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 becomes law. Though many people associate this law only with girl's and women's participation in sports, Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sex in all aspects of education.

  • Mills v. the Board of Education of Washington, D.C.

    The case of Mills v. the Board of Education of Washington, D.C. extends the PARC v. Pennsylvania ruling to other students with disabilities and requires the provision of "adequate alternative educational services suited to the child's needs, which may include special education . . ."

  • The Indian Education Act

    The Indian Education Act becomes law and establishes "a comprehensive approach to meeting the unique needs of American Indian and Alaska Native students"

  • The Massachusetts Education Reform Act

    The Massachusetts Education Reform Act requires a common curriculum and statewide tests (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System). As has often been the case, other states follow Massachusetts' lead and implement similar, high-stakes testing programs.

  • first online high school

    CompuHigh is founded. It claims to be the first online high school

  • report cards

    The Higher Education Act is amended and reauthorized requiring institutions and states to produce "report cards" about teacher education.

  • Proposition 227

    California voters pass Proposition 227, requiring that all public school instruction be in English. This time the law withstands legal challenges.