History of Education

By mstiles

  • Common Schools

    Started by Horace Mann. Common schools were meant to make education free for all learners regardless of social class. https://www.preceden.com/timelines/500492-10-important-events-in-education-history

  • Brown vs. Board of Education Decisiom

    separate but equal is no longer legal. white schools and black schools finally just joined, desegregation.

  • National defense education act

    Was created by Dwight Eisenhower in order for the US students to compete with Russia in subjects such as science and math after Sputnik. Provided funding to schools of higher education. expanded college services for students https://www.preceden.com/timelines/500492-10-important-events-in-education-history https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Sputnik_Spurs_Passage_of_National_Defense_Education_Act.htm

  • Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

    Helped students with income disadvantages. Federal government supplied education facilities with the resources needed to improve the quality of elementary and secondary education

  • Title IX

    a law created to prevent sexism in schools.

  • Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)

    A law created to allow a free public education to disabled students that also accommodates their educational needs.

  • Standards movement

    Started by the "a nation at risk" report, the movement was created to set academic standards for students in each grade

  • Massachusetts Education Reform Act

    state's role increased funding for public schools and directing the local education process.

  • No Child Left Behind

    The same basic ideas as the ESEA of 1965, but with a little more added to it

  • Higher Education Act

    It helps students attend higher education facilities that their incomes may prevent them from

  • The higher education opportunity act

    a reauthorization of the higher education act of 2003. went through major changes.

  • American Reinvestment and Recovery Act

    helped secure teachers' jobs and improve schools,

  • Common Core Standards

    Standards decide what k-12 students should know in their year

  • Quest to learn

    The first school to have their teaching methods be more based on games. Planned for the system to apply to all 12 grades

  • Vergara vs. California

    A superior court of California states "laws related to the tenure of teachers, dismissal, or seniority rights are declared unconstitutional. "