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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Theorized believed children learned through senses. His greatest work was Émile, which described the importance of letting children explore on their own and describes how education should take place. -
First Infant school ever
Robert Owen established the first infant school in Scotland. -
Friedrich Froebel
Froebel believed in "self activity" meaning that children should be able to express themselves through free play without a teacher having them do something specific, teachers should be encouraging of this to help students develop and become more educated by themselves. -
First Kindergarten Public School in America
Margarethe Schurz founded the first kindergarten in Watertown, Wisconsin, in 1856. -
First public Nursery school
The first of these schools opened in Berlin, Ontario at Central School. -
John Dewey
Established a laboratory school at the University of Chicago. -
First Montessori School
First Montessori school opens in New York City as a private school -
First Head Start
First head Start program started at Johns Hopkins University as a 8 week summer program. -
"Preschool for all" initiative
Started in 1990 and wasn't until 2005 when in several states preschool was made reality for all 4 year olds. -
Common Core
Educational initiative for K-12 . Students should know English language arts and mathematics at the conclusion of each school grade.