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Colony mandates parents teach religion and laws
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Old Deluder Satan Act
Earliest law regarding schooling -
Slave trade banned
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Schools built from property tax
Law passed in Michigan territory to use property tax money to build schools -
School Committees
Law requires all cities and towns to elect a school committe -
High School
Communities provide high school education for children -
First state board of education
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Normal School
founded in Lexington, MA -
Ipswitch Female Academy
Founded by Zilpah Grant - prepared teachers for common schools -
Egg Crate
Developed by Horace Mann - Boston's Quincy School -
American Women's Educational Association
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Civil War
women begin teaching -
Morrill Act
Signed by President Lincoln - gave money to states for colleges foucused on agriculture and mechanical arts. -
Emancipation of Slaves
Amendment XIII, XIV, XV -
Carlisle Indian School
Richard Henry Pratt convinces the federal Bureaur of Indian Affairs to let him convert an amry barrack into the Carlisle Indian School -
Hatch Act
Land Grant colleges to set up experimental farms -
Morrill Act
eliminated the exclusion of African American students and former Confederate state students -
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Progressive Movement
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Seperate but equal -
Dewy School
opened in Chicago -
Labor Union
Margaret Haley and Catherine Goggin co-found Chicago Teachers Federation -
Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute
Founded by Mary McLeod Bethune for African American girls -
First female superintendent
Ella Flagg Young -
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WWI
intelligence tests created, and later applied to schools -
restriction on immigration
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Womens right to vote
19th Amendment ratified -
Snyder Act
Mandated that Native American history and culture be taught in schools -
Great Depression
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WWII
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Modern Schools
combined smaller district schools into larger more modern schools -
Mendez v. Westminister School District
State supreme court finds separate Mexican schools illegal -
Period: to
Cold War
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Brown v. Board of Education
Made segregation illegal -
teaching machine
created by B.F. Skinner -
Blooms Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
organizes and categorizes curriculum goals -
U.S.S.R launches Suptnik
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National Defense Education Act
to build stronger mathematics and sciense programs -
Economic Opportunity Act
Signed by President Johnson - created Medicare, Medicaid, legal services, food stamps, and VISTA -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
government helps to equalize schooling, teacher preparedness, libraries, books, and programs for Native American, migrant, and homeless children -
Bilingual Education Act
Special assistance to language minority students -
Deschooling movement
led by John Holt -
Lau v. Nichols
Chinese student segregation illegal -
P.L. 94-142 Education for All Handicapped Children Act
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Indian Self-Determination and Education Act
Empowered tribes to run their own schools -
Technology
mid 1990s middle school students are required to be literate in technology -
No Child Left Behind