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Start of Teacher's Union
The National Teachers Association was created to give educators a united team, starting at 100 members. -
Forced Schooling
As the main effort to get native american children into boarding schools, they forced them to go to boarding schools where they were required to speak english and attend church. -
Plessy VS Ferguson
This court case legalized segregation in schools. -
Free Public Schools
All states have laws requiring mandatory school attendance for children through elementary school. -
Pierce V Society of Sisters
This supreme court ruling finds that children can't be compelled to attend public school instead of private school. -
School Lunch for All
National School Lunch Act enables access to school lunch by making available low cost or free lunches for low income students. -
Brown v Board of Education
The decision reverses Plessy v Ferguson ruling that separate is not equal, and outlaws segregation. -
National Defense Education Act
This act provided educational funding to schools of all levels in America. This was after they realized that the math and science education was not as good as it should be. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Funding fro primary and secondary education was greater and it banish the establishment of standardized schooling systems. -
Education Professionals Development Act
Required for extensive training for educational teachers and instructors. -
Department of Education Act
Established United States Department of Education as a cabinte position within the United States Government. -
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics published Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for school mathematics
This reformed mathematics education to study concept rather than specific equations and algorithms. -
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technologies Act
Mandated federal funding and schools toward preparing student for a technologically oriented future in the workplace. -
Improve America's Schools Act
Reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education act of 1965, and added a lot of parts related to low income schools. -
Educate America Act
Required individual states to submit applications describing how they will create a school improvement program. -
No Child Left Behind Act
This required annual standardized testing for students nationwide, grades 3-8. -
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technologies Act
Reauthorized previous act of 1990, it also strengthened the connection primary and secondary education. -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Allocated over 100 billion dollars in funding toward k-12 educational institutions. -
Race to the Top
President Barack Obama's Race to the Top program ushers in a wave of education reforms as states compete for federal grants in the midst of a recession.
