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1653
The first university ,called harvard college was established in Newtowne,Massachusetts. -
1801
Big news , James Pillans invented the modern blackboard by hanging a big slab of slate on the classroom wall. -
1823
Catharine Beecher founded the Hartford female seminary , one of the first major institutions allowing ladies to get an education. -
1911
Maria Montessori founded the first Montessori School in Tarrytown,New York. -
1954
Sparks of the Civil Rights Movement ! In the case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka -
1957
The "Little Rock Nine" a group of nine African - American students , tried to enroll at Central High School in Little Rock , Arkansas. -
1964
The Association for children with Learning Disabilities (now the Learning Disabilities Association of America) was formed , choosing the term "learning disability" . -
1972
The Title IX of the Education Amendments prohibited discrimination based on sex in all aspects of education -
1982
All states allowed homeschooling by the mid - 1990s -
1993
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" -
1994
President Bill Clinton signed the Improving America's Schools Act , or IASA. -
2001
President G.W Bush's signing of the No Child Left Behind Act. -
2012
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. -
2014
Minnesota became the 33rd state to create a formal transgender student policy .