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Education Through Time
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Boston Latin Grammar School
Prepared boys for ministry and law -
Harvard College Opens
Harvard College, the first higher education institution in what is now the United States, is established in Newtowne (now Cambridge), Massachusetts -
The Old Deluder Satan Act
The Old Deluder Satan Act - designed to produce citizens who understood the bible. Lucifer - town of 50 or more households to have a teacher -
William Berkley
No free schools - supported inequality in American schools -
Colonial Period
Roots of American education system are established for just wealthy white men and the teachers were men -
Early National Period
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End of Early National Period
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1st Amendment
First Amendment - Separation of Church and State -
The Land Ordinance of 1785
Specifies that the western territories are to be divided into townships made up of 640-acre sections, one of which was to be set aside "for the maintenance of public schools. (About 50 students means a school) -
State Responsibility
Constitution removes formal religion from schools and establishes State Responsibility -
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Rise of State support for Public Education
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English Classical School
Focused on needs of boys not attending college -
Horace Mann
Secretary of Massachusetts state board of education
Most important legacy was tax supported elementary schools should be a right to all citizens -
First School Superintendant
Was in Louisville, Kentucky -
New York State Asylum for Idiots
For mentally disabled children and adults
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50% of American children enrolled in school
Tax supported public schools were firmly established -
Boston creates the first public day school for the deaf.
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The Dewey Decimal System
Developed by Melvil Dewey in 1873, is published and patented. Still used to this day. Helped with research. -
Plessy v Ferguson
Black train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. Equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races for railroads and applied to everything else. -
Commitee of Ten
Created standards and methods for high school -
First Junior High, Columbus Ohio
Provide unique education for adolescence - Indianola Junior High -
First Montessori School
Tarrytown, New York -
Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education
Created cardinal principles of education including applied goals in civic and health education -
First Sucessful School Desegregation
Alvarez v. Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District - Forbid Mexican-American students from not attending a normal school -
First Sucessful School Desegregation
Alvarez v. Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District - Forbid Mexican-American students from not attending a normal school -
WPA (Works Progress Adminstration)
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Laszio Biro and his brother Georg patent the ballpoint pen.
When it first hit the market in 1946, a ballpoint pen sold for around $10, roughly equivalent to $100 today. When the Bic Cristal hit American markets in 1959, the price was down to 19 cents a pen. -
SAT
Started as a test to get into Harvard, but College board adopted it. -
National School Lunch Act
Permanent lunch situation - Aid for school for lunch programs -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
"We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" -
Little Rock 9 Attend Central High School
Federal troops enforce integration in Little Rock, Arkansas as the Little Rock 9 enroll at Central High School. -
ACT
Everett Franklin Lindquist developed the ACT as a competitor for the SAT -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Start of Title 1 and help for Bilingual students. -
Bilingual Education Act
The Bilingual Education Act, also know as Title VII, becomes law. Requires Bilingual teachingAfter many years of controversy, the law is repealed in 2002 and replaced by the No Child Left Behind Act. -
Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972
Eliminated Gender Bias in school and sports -
Lau v Nichols
Federal court ruled that the San Francisco school system had violated the rights of Chinese American students and students who found their educational experience "wholly incomprehensible" should be taught in their first language if that language was not English" -
No Child Left Behind Act
Increased the federal role in holding schools responsible for the academic progress of all students. And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English-language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children -
Vergara v California
First state to weaken teaching tenure protections -
Every Student Succeeds Act
Replaces No Child Left Behind - Allows more state control in judging school equality -
President-elect Donald Trump names school-choice advocate Betsy DeVos Secretary of Education.
Who knows where this will take us?
