events in the history of education

  • first latin grammar school

  • harvard college

  • Charles town, south Carolina public library

  • american spelling book, by noah webster

  • english classical school

  • new england asylum for the blind

  • horance mann appointed secretary, Massachusetts state board of education

  • Elizabeth Peabody's Boston kindergarten

  • department of education created

  • alvarez v. the board of trustees of the lemon grove school district

  • g.i. bill signed by president roosevelt

  • brown v. board of education

  • elementary and secondary education act

  • a nation at risk

  • goals 2000: educate america act