Historical Timeline

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  • Jamestown established

    Jamestown is established in Virginia.

  • The Mayflower lands

    The Pilgrims arrive and establish the Plymouth Colony.

  • Boston Latin School

    The Boston Latin School is established.

  • The Massachusetts Bay School Law

    Law that requires parents to have their children know the principles of religion and the commonwealth capital laws.

  • A Grammatical Institute of the English Language

    Noah Webster writes a spelling book, a grammar book and a reader that become popular and widely used across the United States.

  • The Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights Tenth Amendment establishes that education is a responsibility of the state.

  • An Act to Establish Public Education

    Thomas Jefferson writes a bill to establish a comprehensive plan for public education.

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

    The first permanant school for students who are deaf.

  • Boston English High School

    One of the first public high schools in the United States opens.

  • Massachusetts Law

    Towns with a population of more than 500 are required to have a public high school for all students.

  • The New England Asylum for the Blind

    The school that is now known as the Perkins School for the Blind opens in Massachusetts. This is the first U.S. school for students with visual disabilities.

  • Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

  • Civil Rights Act

    Segregation is banned.

  • Joliet Junior College

    The first public community college created in the U.S.

  • Transportation

    All states have laws to provide transportation to school.

  • The International Council for Exceptional Children

  • Brown v. Board. of Education of Topeka

    The Supreme Court rules that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal"

  • Engel v. Vitale,

    Prayer in public school violates the First Amendment

  • The Civil Rights Act

  • Mills v. the Board of Education of Washington, D.C.

    Students with special needs are required to receive adequate alternative education services.

  • Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972

    Discrimination of sex in any educational aspect is prohibited.

  • The Equal Educational Opportunities Act

    This requires schools to remove any discriminatory barriers for students and prohibits discrimination.

  • The Education of All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142)

  • No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)

  • Common Core State Standards Initiative,

    Common Core is implemented in more than half of the U.S. states.