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Latin Grammar Schools
The Latin school was the grammar school of 14th to 19th-century Europe, though the latter term was much more common in England. The schools taught reading, writing, and arithmetic. The purpose of Grammar Schools was to prepare the boys for the entrance test for Harvard.There was concern placed on the ability to read and speak Greek and Latin. The Grammar school's purpose was preparing boys for higher learning. Compared to modern High Schools which are to prepare for the beginning of College. -
Salem Witchraft Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, fourteen of them women, and all but one by hanging. -
Dame Schools
A Dame school was an early form of a private elementary school in English-speaking countries. They were usually taught by women and were often located in the home of the teacher. A New England Dame school in old colonial times, 1713. Engraving. The first schools children in colonial America usually attended were Dame Schools. Dame schools were generally taught by women (or "dames" as they were called in colonial times) in their own homes. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1754–1763. -
New England Primer
The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in 18th century America and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s. A textbook. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. The Continental Congress named a five-member commission to negotiate a treaty–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Laurens. -
Young Ladies Academy
One of the most pivotal events in the history of women’s education was the opening of The Young Ladies Academy. It opened in 1787 and was stated to be the first all female academy established in America. Male teachers taught reading, spelling, writing, math and geography. Less than a year after it opened the academy had enrolled almost one hundred girls. The Young Ladies Academy set an example for the many academies and seminaries that began to be opened in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. -
Constitutional Convention
In September 1786, at the Annapolis Convention, delegates from five states called for a Constitutional Convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation. The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787. -
McGuffey Readers
McGuffey Readers were a series of graded primers for grade levels 1-6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and in homeschooling. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from June 1812 to February 1815, fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies. -
Boston English High School
The English High School of Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the first public high schools in America, founded in 1821. Originally called The English Classical School, it was renamed The English High School upon its first relocation in 1824. -
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New York State Asylum for Idiots
The Syracuse State School was a residential facility in Syracuse, New York for mentally disabled children and adults. Founded in 1851 in Albany, New York as the New York State Asylum for Idiots, acting upon a recommendation contained in the 1846 annual report of the New York State Asylum for Lunatics. The first director was Hervey B. Wilbur, a student of Edward Seguin (another of Seguin's students was Maria Montessori). -
Lincoln University
Lincoln University is the United States' first degree-granting historically black university. Founded as a private university in 1854, it has been a public institution since 1972. -
Kindergarten
In 1856, Margarethe Schurz started a kindergarten in her home for her daughter and four of her daughter's cousins.[3] When other children wanted to join, Schurz opened a school in this building. Schurz's husband, Carl Schurz, later became a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War and United States Secretary of the Interior. In 1956, the Watertown Historical Society turned it into a museum. -
The National Teachers Association
The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States. It represents public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers. The NEA has just under 3 million members and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. The NEA had a budget of more than $341 million for the 2012–2013 fiscal year. Lily Eskelsen García is the NEA's current president. -
US Civil War
The American Civil War was an internal conflict fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. The Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history. -
Howard University
Howard University is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university in Washington, D.C. It is classified as a research university with high research activity and is accredited. From its outset it has been nonsectarian and open to people of all genders and races. Howard has graduate programs in business, nursing, engineering, pharmacy, law, social work, education, communications, art, science, divinity, dentistry, and medicine. -
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) is an American non-profit professional organization concerned with intellectual disability and related developmental disabilities. AAIDD has members in the United States and more than 50 other countries. -
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Founded in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry Pratt under, Carlisle was the first federally funded off-reservation Indian boarding school. It was founded on the principle that Native Americans were the equals of European-Americans, and that Native American children immersed in mainstream Euro-American culture would learn skills to advance in society. Many people believed that Amerindians were a vanishing race whose only hope for survival was rapid assimilation to American culture. -
Spanish American War
The Spanish–American War (Spanish: Guerra hispano-estadounidense or Guerra hispano-americana; Filipino: Digmaang Espanyol-Amerikano) was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor in Cuba leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
Joliet Junior College
Joliet Junior College (JJC), a community college based in Joliet, Illinois, is the first public community college founded in the United States. JJC offers pre-baccalaureate programs for students planning to transfer to a four-year university, as well as occupational education leading directly to employment. Additionally, JJC offers adult education and literacy programs, workforce development services, and student support services. -
WWI
World War I, also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. -
American Federation of Teachers
The American Federation of Teachers is an American labor union that primarily represents teachers. The union was founded in Chicago in 1916, with Margaret Haley credited as its founder and first leader. -
Progressive Education Association
During the early 1900s, the Progressive Movement came to the forefront of what Kliebard has called "the struggle for the American curriculum." Progressivism challenged traditional ideals concerning foundations of students education. The movement was influenced by writings & lectures of John Dewey, who in was inspired by political & educational theorists & by the social theories of people like George Herbert Mead, Auguste Comte & Thorstein Veblen. He was also deeply influenced by Darwinism. -
Gestalt Theory
Gestalt is a psychology term which means "unified whole". It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied. -
McCarver Elementary School
McCarver Elementary School is an important school in Tacoma, with a notable history. It opened in 1925, as a junior high school and later an elementary school. Many Tacoma leaders are among its graduates. It was the nation's first magnet school in service to a voluntary effort to reduce racial segregation in Tacoma. More recently, McCarver faced some challenges. It has more homeless students than any other elementary school in the region. -
Tennessee vs. John Scopes
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in May 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach. -
African Institute
The International African Institute (IAI) was founded in 1926 in London for the study of African languages. Frederick Lugard was the first chairman; Diedrich Hermann Westermann and Maurice Delafosse were the initial co-directors.[1] The IAI's mission is "to promote the education of the public in the study of Africa and its languages and cultures". Its operations include seminars, journals, and stimulating scholarship within Africa. -
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States. Introduced in 1926, its name and scoring have changed several times; originally called the Scholastic Aptitude Test, it was later called the Scholastic Assessment Test, then the SAT I: Reasoning Test, then the SAT Reasoning Test, and now, simply the SAT. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
WWII
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. -
Truman Commission Report
A report to President Harry S. Truman on higher education in the United States. The commission to write this report was established on July 13, 1946, and it was chaired by George F. Zook.
The report is significant not only for its six-volume size but for the fact that it marks the first time in United States history that a President establishes a commission for the purposes of analyzing the country's system of education, a task typically left to the states as prescribed by the Tenth Amendment. -
Project Head Start
Head Start 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. The program's services and resources are designed to foster stable family relationships, enhance children's physical and emotional well-being, and establish an environment to develop strong cognitive skills. -
California Proposition 227
California Proposition 227, also called the English Language in Public Schools Statute, was on the June 2, 1998 statewide primary ballot in California as an initiated state statute. It was approved. Proposition 227 changed the way that "Limited English Proficient" (LEP) students are taught in California.Sep 5, 2016 -
No Child Left Behind
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It supported standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education. The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills. To receive federal school funding, states had to give these assessments to all students at select grade levels.
