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Boston Latin School
The first public school opened in New England which would become later the United States. It was known as the Boston Latin School and it was a boys only public secondary school led by Philemon Pormont, a Puritan settler. (https://youtu.be/dNCaf0EEv_c ) -
Old Deluder Satan Act
Massachusetts passed the Law of 1647, commonly called the Deluder Satan Act, which required that towns of at least 100 families to hire a schoolmaster to teach local children. In this way, the burden of education was shifted from the parents to the local community.
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Hornbook
The Hornbook was a sheet containing the letters of the alphabet was mounted on a wooden frame and protected with thin, transparent plates of horn. The frame was shaped like a table-tennis paddle, had a handle, and was usually hung at the child’s belt. The earliest sheets were of vellum; later they were of paper. Along with the alphabet it contained a religious verse which the children would copy to help them learn to write. Could also be used as a paddle -
American Acadamy
Benjamin Franklin helped establish an educational institution that was first called the English Academy. The curriculim was both classical and modern and included courses such as history, geography, surveying, navigation, and modern/classical languages. It later became the University of Pennsylvania. -
Blackboard invented
James Pillans taught geography and in 1801 invented the chalkboard in Scotland. After that Mr. George Baron who was an instructor at the West Point Military Academy is considered the first instructor to use a big black chalk board into his math class. American schools added this tool into classrooms and by the middle of the 1800's you could find a blackboard in almost every school. -
Boston Public Library
Boston Public Library opened to the public. It was the first major tax-supported free library in the United States. Established by an act of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts. After opening in an old schoolhouse on March 20 1854, the quarters of the building were inadequate for the collection of sixteen thousand volumes, so December of 1854 the commissioners were authorized to locate to a new building which opened in 1858 and remained there for 20 years until in outgrew that space. -
Typewriter
Christopher Latham Sholes from Milwaukee invented the very firsrt typewriter in 1867. It later sold and turned into the Remington Typewriter. -
Fountain Pen
Lewis Wateman patented fountain pen on his name. He sold them behind a cigar shop and gave a five year guarantee on them. in 1885 he partnered with Asa Shipmana and founded The Ideal Pen Company, but it didn't last. in 1887 he founded Waterman Pen Company alone but needed to raise capital. -
Pencils and Paper
Paper and pencils began to be mass-produces and became more readily available. The pencils soon started to replace the school slates making writing easier and faster. Pencil manufactures turned to California's Sierra Nevada mountains, they found incense-cedar which is a species of wood that grew in abundance and also made superior pencils. -
First Community College
J. Stanley Brown, Superintendent of Joliet Township High School, and William Rainey Harper, President of the University of Chicago, founded JJC in 1901 as an experimental postgraduate high school program. The college's initial enrollment was six students; today, JJC serves more than 30,000 students. By December 1902, the Board of Trustees officially sanctioned the program and made postgraduate high school courses available tuition-free. By 1916 enrollment was up to 82 students.
