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1st Public Library
The 1st Public Library was opened in "Charles Town", SC in November of 1698. The Assembly of South Carolina confirmed the establishment of the library by the official act in 1700, but this was even before they had enough funds for the purchase of books for the new "Publick Library." -
Jefferson's Proposed Bill
Thomas Jefferson proposed a Bill in 1779 for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge. He proposed the idea of giving three years of free education to all non-slave children. Jefferson believed in universal education. He strongly stressed that education was a privlage not a right. -
First Chalkboard
James Pillans, a Geography teacher at a High School in Edinburgh, Scotland, is given full credit with inventing the first modern blackboard when he hung a large piece of slate on the classroom wall. -
First American Kindergarten
The first kindergarten opened up in Watertown, Wisconsin by Margarethe Schurz. She carried Friedrich Froebel’s ideas with her into these schools. -
Pledge of Allegiance
The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an expression of loyalty to the federal flag and the republic of the United States of America, originally composed by Francis Bellamy in 1892 and formally adopted by Congress as the pledge in 1942 -
Brown vs Board of Education
A landmark Supreme Court case that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Head Start Begins
The Head Start Program is a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families -
No Child Left Behind
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is a United States Act of Congress that is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which included Title I, the government's flagship aid program for disadvantaged students. The Act requires states to develop assessments in basic skills
