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The First Reform School
Massachusetts Reform School at Westborough opens, where children who have refused to attend public schools are sent. This begins a long tradition of "reform schools," which combine the education and juvenile justice systems -
G.I. Bill
At the end of World War 2, the G.I. Bill of Rights gives thousands of working class men college scholarships for the first time in U.S. history. -
Educational Testing is Formed
Merging the College Entrance Examination Board, the Cooperative Test Service, the Graduate Records Office, and the National Committee on Teachers Examinations and others, with huge grants from the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundation. -
Brown vs Board of Education
Segregated schools are "inherently unequal" and must be abolished. -
The First ACT test is administered
Administered by Everett Franklin Lindquist -
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is passed.
It provides federal funds to help low-income students, which results in the initiation of educational programs such as Title I and bilingual education -
The Higher Education Act is signed
It increases federal aid to higher education and provides for scholarships, student loans, and establishes a National Teachers Corps. -
Milliken vs Bradley
A case dealing with the planned desegregation busing of public school students. It confirmed that segregation was allowed if it was not considered an explicit policy of the school district. -
The Massachusetts Education Reform Act
Requires a common curriculum and statewide tests -
No Child Left Behind
Approved by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush. The major focus of No Child Left Behind is to close student achievement gaps by providing all children with a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education. -
North American CounciL for Online Learning
A non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing K-12 online education -
The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 200
Provides more than 90-billion dollars for education, nearly half of which goes to local school districts to prevent layoffs and for school modernization and repair.
