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First Public School
The Boston Latin School was founded and was the first public school. It is the oldest existing school in the U.S. -
Yale was founded
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First All Girls School & Catholic School
Ursuline Academy in New Orleans is the oldest Catholic school in the US as well as the oldest all girls school. -
Chalkboards arrive
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Perkins School for the Blind
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Horace Mann becomes Secretary of Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was founded
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First tax payer funded public school
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Nebraska's oldest university and the largest in the University of Nebraska system. The university is organized into eight colleges on two campuses in Lincoln. Go Huskers! -
First Woman to Graduate from Law School
Ada H. Kepley graduated Union College of Law in Chicago. -
All states had tax subsidized elementary schools
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Freeman School
was the longest used one room school in Nebraska history. (1872-1967) Located at the Homestead National Monument. -
Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing
In 1873 located in New York City, this was the first school founded on the principles of nursing established by Florence Nightingale. -
Tuskeegee University Founded
Founded by Booker T. Washington, this is a Historically black college with alumni including Keenen Ivory Wayans, Lionel Ritchie, and the members of the Commodore's who met while attending. George Washington Carver was a professor here as well. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
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John Dewey published a summary of his theory on progressive education in School Journal
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Compulsory School Laws
34 states required students to attend schools until at least the age of 14 -
Pencils used in classrooms
Something to replace slate! Pencils and paper. -
Every state required students to complete elementary school
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Schools started building gymnasiums
an idea founded by Nicolas Isaranga. to accommodate the popular team and individual games and sports that are in a school curriculum. -
Overhead Projectors
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Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
Also known as the GI Bill. -
Video Tapes Introduced
Fun time in school! Who didn't love a movie day? -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. It also repelled Plessy vs Ferguson. -
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Educational Television
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Little Rock Nine
The NAACP decided to start enrolled African American students into all white schools. This was met with much backlash in Little Rock, Arkansas, where 9 studnes were set to attend Central High School. These students were: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals. Ernest Green was the first African American to graduate from Central High School. -
Higher Education Act of 1965
Federal Scholarships and Low Interest Loans were increased -
Tri-County Public School
As of 2017 the district has 402 students, including my son. in 1966 it consolidated various schools to create one. -
Geographic Information System
A geographic information system or geographical information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data.
Students can search this data base to make sure they don't disturb any known historic or archaeological site. -
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Public Broadcasting Service
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scantron
making testing much easier for teachers across the nation. -
Congress passed Education for all handicapped children act
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Space Camp
In Huntsville, Alabama based at the U.S Space & Rocket Center, children from all 50 states can go and learn about all the fun things NASA has to offer.
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National Commission in Excellence released a report: A Nation at Risk
•Some 23 million American adults are functionally illiterate by the simplest tests of everyday reading, writing, and comprehension. •About 13 percent of all 17-year-olds in the United States can be considered functionally illiterate. Functional illiteracy among minority youth may run as high as 40 percent. •Average achievement of high school students on most standardized tests is now lower than 26 years ago when Sputnik was launched. -
D.A.R.E
Drug Abuse Resistance Education is an education program that seeks to prevent use of controlled drugs, membership in gangs, and violent behavior. Founded in Los Angeles in 1983 -
Word 1.1, Excel 2.0, & PowerPoint 2.0
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Public gains access to the World Wide Web
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Smart board
The smart board system offers an information space that allows students to engage in active collaboration. (Wikipedia) -
AlphaSmart
a battery powered, portable word-processing keyboard. Very popular in schools for their price and durability. -
StoryCenter
In 1994 a group of people founded the San Francisco Digital Media Center. in 1998, they moved to Berkeley and became the Center for Digital Storytelling, and finally in 2015 they became, simply, StoryCenter. -
I started Kindegarten
This was the year I learned to tie my shoes, count to 100, I was never able to nap though. -
The Flat Stanley Project
Started in 1995 by Dale Hubert it involved a paper cut out of a children's book character. Students can send him all over the world and get correspondence via the web. -
WebQuest
One of the goals is to increase critical thinking. It can be a versatile tool for teaching students. Webquest requires good reading skills. -
No Child Left Behind Act becomes law
requires all public schools receiving federal funding to administer a statewide standardized test annually to all students. -
Dreambox
A prek-8 math solution driven by a unique technology. Every child can excel at learning. -
I graduated high school
I graduated from Cabot High School in Cabot, Arkansas. My graduating class size was over 600. I mistakenly wore heels, I did not fall. -
21 Classes
A virtual classroom with blogs. -
Prezi
A web-based presentation software founded in Budapest, Hungary in 2009. This program is free for hundreds of thousands of Title 1 high school teachers across the US thanks to the Connected initiative. -
National Education Technology Plan
sets a national vision and plan for learning enabled by technology through building on the work of leading education researchers; district, school, and higher education leaders; classroom teachers; developers; entrepreneurs; and nonprofit organizations -
Ipads
Students in schools started using IPADs in their daily education plans. -
Every Student Succeeds Act
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a US law passed in December 2015 that governs the United States K–12 public education policy. The law replaced its predecessor, the No Child Left Behind Act, and modified but did not eliminate provisions relating to the periodic standardized tests given to students. (Wikipedia)
