history of education

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    history of education

  • the first "free school"

    free with no charge

  • Harvard college

    the first higher institution in what is now the united states

  • Hartford public highschool

    is "the second oldest secondary school in the united states"

  • Henry Dunster

    becomes president of Harvard college and teaches all the courses himself

  • the first new england primer

    It becomes the most widely-used schoolbook in New England.

  • John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education is published

    describing his views on educating upper class boys to be moral,

  • The College of William and Mary

    the second college to open in colonial America and has the distinction of being Thomas Jefferson's college.

  • The first publicly supported library in the U.S.

    established in Charles Town, South Carolina.

  • The Ursuline Academy of New Orleans is founded.

    A Catholic school for girls sponsored by Sisters of the Order of Saint Ursula

  • Benjamin Franklin helps to establish the first "English Academy" in Philadelphia

    with a curriculum that is both classical and modern

  • St. Matthew Lutheran School

    one of the first Lutheran "parish schools" in North America,

  • Thomas Jefferson authors Bill 79: "A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge,"

    which provides "a comprehensive plan for public education . . ."

  • The University of Georgia

    becomes "America's first state-chartered university."

  • The Young Ladies Academy

    becomes the first academy for girls in the original 13 colonies/states

  • Boston English High School

    one of the first public high schools in the U.S., opens.

  • Catherine Beecher founds the Hartford Female Seminary

    a private school for girls in Hartford, Connecticut.

  • Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

    the first college for women in the U.S. Its founder/president is Mary Lyon.

  • The African Institute

    the oldest institution of higher learning for African Americans.

  • "normal" schools) opens in Lexington, Massachusetts.

    The first state funded school specifically for teacher education

  • Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children,

    the first school of its kind in the U.S.