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Dame-Schools (day care) are common for those with means
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Private Instruction for those with means is common
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Eighty-two Days Average Lifetime Schooling
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Declaration of Independance
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Thomas Jefferson Drafts Proposal to Educate All Americans for Three Years
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Noah Webster Publishes the "Blueback Seller"
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Average Attendance and Cost of Students in MA: Four Months/ $2.81
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Half of New Yorkers were Foreign-Born
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Philidelphia Bible Riots
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Average Attendance and Yearly Cost for a Student in MA: Seven Months and $4.80
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Sarah Burns goes to court over segregation in public schools
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Hughes named Arch-Bishop of New York
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Massachusets State Legislature End Segregation
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Cival War Ends, Slaves are Freed, Reconstruction Begins
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Public Expenditures in Education: $63 Million
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7.6 million students attend school annually
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Public Expenditures in Education: $141 Million
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12.7 million students attend school annually
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Plessy v. Ferguson upholds segregation as Constitutional
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School and Society: By John Dewey is published
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Average amount of schooling: Five years
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Fifty-percent of children are enrolled in school
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World's Fair puts progressive education on display
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Seventeen year-old High school graduation rate: 6%
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There are two million child workers in the United States
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United States enters World War 1
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IQ Test Administered to WW1 Soldiers
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Because of the War, English-only teaching is emphasized
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New York includes the Wirt(Gary) Plan in the city's schools. Rioting ensues.
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One-third of Southern Italians (NYC) left school by the 8th Grade
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On Average, one high school was opening every day
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Public Expense on Education: $1 Billion
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Seventeen percent of people graduate high school
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Sociologists theorize that ethnicity and intelligence are correlated.
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Child Labor is banned
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Two-thirds of Mexican Students classified as slow or retarded
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Seventeen year-old graduation rate: 45%
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Baby Boomers: Fifty percent went to college
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There are seventeen states in which African-Americans are segregated by law
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Americans with a H.S. Diploma: 13.7%
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Medical and Law Degrees awarded to women: .1%
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Average School Attendance: Nine years
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"Educational Wastelands" is published by Arthur Bestor
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Brown v. Board of Education rules that segregation is Unconstitutional
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Sputnik spurs US Government to play a larger role in education
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National Defense and Education Act Passes
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed
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Elementary and Secondary Education Act passes
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Ninety-one percent of African-American attend integrated public schools
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Five billion spent annually on education in the U.S.
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Seventy-Five percent of Mexican-Americans drop out by 8th grade
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One percent of medical and law degrees are awarded to women
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Women make up about seven percent of all high school athletes.
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Because of "white flight" to the suburbs, busing used as a means of integration in public schools.
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Title Nine signed into law.
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Lawsuit filed to enforce the provisions of Title Nine
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Supreme Court rules that discrimination also includes not respecting educational needs of students
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Courts ruled that busing was outside of jurisdiciton when across school districts.
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New York Schools asked to create small, alternative schools within existing buildings
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Americans with a H.S. diploma: 51.4%
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Medical and Law degrees awarded to women: 30%
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Average School Attendance: 12.5 years
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President Reagan presents report "Nation at Risk"
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Secular Charter School Subsidies are granted
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EAI Hired to run Baltimore Schools
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EAI contract expires with the Baltimore School District
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Cleveland, Ohio is firs tin nation to allow vouchers to be used for religious schools
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Congress provides 80 million dollars for public schools
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Homeschools made legal in all 50 states
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Columbine High School Shooting
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NCLB signed into law
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Enrollment: 48 million. 90% of students in public school.