Historical Timeline

By hannahcallan

  • The Ursuline Academy of New Orleans was founded

    It is a Catholic school for all girls. It's the oldest still operating school for girls and oldest Catholic school in the U.S.

  • Benjamin Franklin helps establish the first English Academy

    Included courses like history, geography, surveying, and languages. It later became the University of Philadelphia.

  • Noah Webster writes A Grammatical Institute of the English Language

    He was unsatisfied the textbooks back then, so he wrote his own including a spelling book, a grammar book, and a reader.

  • The University of Georgia becomes America's first state-chartered university

  • The Young Ladies Academy opens in Philadelphia

    It became first academy for girls in one of the 13 colonies.

  • The modern blackboard was invented

    James Pillans created the first modern blackboard.

  • The Connecticut Asylum at Hartford for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons Opens

    It's the first school for the deaf in the U.S.

  • Boston English High School opens

    One of the first public schools in the U.S.

  • The New England Asylum for the Blind opens

    It is now called the Perkins School for the Blind, it's the first school to open in the U.S. for blind people.

  • Stanford University is founded

  • The Association of American Universities is founded

    It was to promote higher standards for the U.S. universities.

  • Joliet Junior College opens

    The first public community college in the U.S.

  • The American Federation of Teachers is founded

  • The Smith Hughes Act passes

    Provided federal funding for agricultural and vocational education.

  • The Works Progress Administration is authorized by Congress

    It put unemployed people to work on the building of schools.

  • The Higher Education Opportunity Act is passed into law

    Included major changes student loan eligibility.

  • The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009

    Provided more than 90-billion dollars for education

  • Federal Government allows transgender students to use the bathroom matching their gender identity

  • Thousands of students across the nation walk out of classrooms

    They were demanding changes in gun laws.

  • Schools began their plans for re-opening schools due to COVID-19

    Some schools offered fall-semester online and others allowed students to do in person school.