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public school movement
Horace Mann created a movement for states to fund public education. https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1871/Common-School-Movement.html -
Plessy v. Ferguson
legally segregated schools establishing separate but equal. https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3181 -
measurement movement
Created by Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon involving measuring the intelligence of peoples brains creating what we know today as IQ testing. https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2101/Intelligence-MEASUREMENT.html -
The Feminization of Teaching
Women can now be teachers. https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/feminization-teaching -
Brown vs Board of education
Children of all races can now go to school together. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka -
National defense education act
Encouraged people to get a higher education specifically to complete with the Soviet Union. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Sputnik_Spurs_Passage_of_National_Defense_Education_Act.htm -
Head start program
Helped preschoolers of low-income families by giving them a program that meets their needs. https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ohs/about/history-head-start -
Title IX
prohibits discrimination on student and faculty based on their sex in the education system. https://www.epa.gov/ocr/title-ix-education-amendments-act-1972 -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
allows a free public education appropriate to students with disabilities. https://www2.ed.gov/policy/speced/leg/idea/history.pdf -
Standards Movement
set academic standards for teachers to meet when teaching curriculum. https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2445/Standards-Movement-in-American-Education.html -
The invention of Google
changed how students learn and teachers teach. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html -
No Child Left Behind
Has the goal of improving student success through yearly standardized assessment of students. https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/your-childs-rights/basics-about-childs-rights/no-child-left-behind-nclb-what-you-need-to-know