History of Education timeline

By kenzie.zapata

  • 1732 first woman to teach at a university

    1732 first woman to teach at a university
    Laura Bassi earned a doctor of philosophy degree at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1732, and then became the first woman to teach in an official capacity at any European University.

  • 1830 common schools

    1830 common schools
    Common schools were funded by local property taxes, charged no tuition, were open to all white children.Horace Mann convinced a nation to create a system of common schools. Good schools were good business.Democracy depended upon providing a "common" education to all children, no matter where they were born or the whom.

  • Oberlin Collegiate Institute

    Oberlin Collegiate Institute
    The first co-educational college to be founded was Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Oberlin, Ohio. It opened on 3 December 1833, with 44 students, including 29 men and 15 women.

  • 1862 Homestead act

    1862 Homestead act
    President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a program designed to grant public land to small farmers at low cost. The act gave 160 acres of land to the head of a household who was and 21 years or older.They had to live there for five years.

  • 1900

    1900
    States had compulsory school attendance for students from ages 8-14. By 1918, every state required students to complete elementary school.

  • 1954 Brown vs. Board

    1954 Brown vs. Board
    Brown v. Board of Education, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.

  • All Handicapped Children Act

    All Handicapped Children Act
    in 1975, to support states and localities in protecting the rights of, meeting the individual needs of, and improving the results for Hector and other infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities and their families.

  • 2001 No child left behind

    The law of K–12 general education in the United States from 2002–2015. The law held schools accountable for how kids learned and achieved. The law was controversial in part because it penalized schools that didn't show improvement.

  • 1v1 computures

    1v1 computures
    First school to have 1 computer per student. More technology in schools was a new era in education and made it easier for children.

  • 2020 Covid shutdown

    Students were sent home during a global pandemic and some schools were online and some where completely stopped.
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