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First Latin Grammar School opened in Boston
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Harvard College Opens
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Old Deluder Satan Act
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First printing of New England Primer in Boston
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First publically supported library opens in Charles Town, South Carolina
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Noah Webster writes "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language"
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Young Ladies Academy opens
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James Pillans invents the blackboard
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Boston English High School opens, first public high school
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Catherine Beecher founds Hartford Female Seminary
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Horace Mann becomes secretary of Massachusetts state board of education
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Elizabeth Blackwell is first woman to graduate from Geneva Medical College
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Massachusetts creates first mandatory attendence law
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Boston Public Library opens to the public
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Margarethe Shurz creates first kindergarten in Watertown, Wisconson
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Department of Education is Created
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Michigan Surpreme court rules that Kalamazoo can levy taxes for public high school
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Dewey Decimal System is patented by John Dewey
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First Indian Boarding School opens in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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Ella Flagg Young is first female Superintendent of Public schools, in Chicago
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First Montessori school opens in Tarrytown, New York
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American Federation of Teachers is established. As well as the American Educational Research Association
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Jean Piaget publishes "The Child's Conception of the World"
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School busses must be yellow
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Congress approves National School Lunch Act
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Brown V. Board of Education
A culmination of several cases involving "Separate but Equal" practices that separated school children based upon ethnicity. -
The first ACT test given
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Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges was the first African American child enrolled in William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana. She was left alone after all the caucasian parents removed their children from her class. -
Bilingual Education Act becomes law
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Jean Piaget publishes "The Science of Education"
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Plyler v. Doe
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Board of Education v. Pico
Ruling that books cannot be removed from school libraries because school administrators deem the books to be offensive. -
Smart board introduction
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Colombine shooting
The Colombine shooting devestated the country and altered views on security, among other things, in public schools. -
No Child Left Behind made law
