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The first university ,called harvard college was established in Newtowne,Massachusetts.
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Big news , James Pillans invented the modern blackboard by hanging a big slab of slate on the classroom wall.
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Catharine Beecher founded the Hartford female seminary , one of the first major institutions allowing ladies to get an education.
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Maria Montessori founded the first Montessori School in Tarrytown,New York.
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Sparks of the Civil Rights Movement ! In the case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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The "Little Rock Nine" a group of nine African - American students , tried to enroll at Central High School in Little Rock , Arkansas.
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The Association for children with Learning Disabilities (now the Learning Disabilities Association of America) was formed , choosing the term "learning disability" .
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The Title IX of the Education Amendments prohibited discrimination based on sex in all aspects of education
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All states allowed homeschooling by the mid - 1990s
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The tech age was creeping its way in. This year saw the founding of Jones International University , The first in the world to "exist entirely online"
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President Bill Clinton signed the Improving America's Schools Act , or IASA.
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President G.W Bush's signing of the No Child Left Behind Act.
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The Sandy Hook Shooting , in which Adam Lanza killed 20 Children and 6 Adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School , was the second deadliest shooting by a single person in U.S. history.
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Minnesota became the 33rd state to create a formal transgender student policy .