Education from 1940-1980

By johnsonau
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    Education 1940-1980

  • Medndez vs. Westminster and the California Board of education

    Stated that segergation of mexican students was unconsitutional.

  • National School Lunch Act

  • McCollum vs. Board of Education

    Did not allow students to leave class/school early in order to do religious activities (seperation of church and state).

  • Burrhus Frederic Skinner publishes behavoirism book

    Science and Human behavoir is published and is widely excepted as the newest form of behavoir rienforcement and influsces new school policies.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Supreme Court decides "seperate educational facilities are inherently unequal" overturning Plessy vs. Furguenson in 1896.

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give us seat on the bus.

  • Blooms Taxonomy

  • Little Rock 9 enroll at Ceneral High in Little Rock, Arkansas

  • First ACT is administered

  • Engel vs. Vitale

    Ruling stated you cannot compose an offical state prayer that is then recited and requiered in public school. A direct violation of the first admenment

  • Civil Rights Act becomes a law

  • Higher Education Act is passed and NAaional Teachers Corps. is established

  • Project Head Start begins

  • Cognitive learning is introduced

    Jerome Burners book "Towards a theroy of introduction" makes way for cognitive learning as an allerternative to the traditional learning styles.

  • Bilingual Education Act

  • Epperson et al vs. Arkansas

    A teacher from Little Rock, Arkansas brought suit to a law forbidding the law for teaching evolution.

  • Kent State

    4 Ohioan students are shot by the Ohio National Gaurd for anit-war protesting.

  • Texas Insruments introuduces the first ever calculator

  • Mills vs. Board or Education of Washington DC

    Expands on the law created after the Prac vs. Pennsylviana case in 1971 giving students with mental retardation adaquete resources to give the students a free and specialized public education.

  • Rehabliltation Act

    Allows for 505 Plans or IEP's to students who have learning disablilties.

  • Equal Educational Opportunities

    Prohibites discrimination in public schools. All schools muct overcome comfort levels for their students so that all students are given the same education and all studnets are equally protected.

  • Education of all Handicapp Children

    Requires a free and efficent education to any student that is considered handicapp.