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First public Latin grammar school opened
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Harvard was founded
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The declaration of independence was signed
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Less religion in schools, and started the separation between church and state
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First public high school opened in Boston
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Oberlin college- Ohio established the first co-educational college
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Horace Mann was the first secretary of the state board in Massachusetts
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Irish Catholics faced discrimination for wanting to read their own bibles. so they created their own schools.
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The McGuffey readers became widely available, so they became the primary textbooks used across the nation
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Compulsory Education Act of 1852
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the morril act
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Many people became comeing to the united states
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population kept growing and a strain fell on the education system
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technical schools emerge
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durring the Great Depression, schools faced a shortage of cash
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schools began to close and teachers pay was cut or eleminated
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Dick and Jane books taught basic reading skills
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schools were mainly still racially segregated
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The supreme court ruled that schools were not "separate, but equal."
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Equal opportunity in education act passes.
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Education for all handicapped children act passed
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schools emphasized reading, writing, and math
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Congress established the National Council of Education Standards and Testing
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computers played a minor role in education
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The No Child Left Behind act was passed
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Common Core State Standards Initiative was launched
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President Obama announces a plan to allow for two years of free community college
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Every student succeeds act was signed by President Obama