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The Brown vs. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, was a major civil rights case in which schools were separated based on your race. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren gave the unanimous decision. Public school segregation that was authorized by the state was against the 14th amendment and hence not allowed and everyone went to the same school.
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National Defense Education Act
One of the most effective pieces of higher education legislation was the National Defense Education Act of 1958. In addition to making significant sums available for low-cost student loans, it established the validity of federal sponsorship of higher education, supporting both public and private schools and universities.
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IDEA 1975
The federal law known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) covers special education and related service programming for kids and teenagers with disabilities. When it was first passed in 1975 by President Gerald Ford, it was known as the Education of Handicapped Children Act. This law makes it so no matter the disability you will be offered an accommodated education.
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The Standards Act
The standards act was put into place in 1983 by Emerson E.
White and Joseph Baldwin. The goal of the standards-based education reform movement is for every adolescent to graduate from high school with a meaningful diploma that essentially acts as a public guarantee that they are literate and proficient in reading, writing, and basic mathematics.
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Google
In order to promote Google Search, the most popular web-based search engine, Larry Page and Sergey Brin formally established the Google company in 1998. In 1996, Page and Brin, two Stanford University students from California, created the search algorithm. The expanding company relocated around several times before landing in Mountain View in 2003 as a result of the search engine's quick success. This was a huge game changer in today's education.