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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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States had compulsory school attendance for students from ages 8-14. By 1918, every state required students to complete elementary school.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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First school to have 1 computer per student. More technology in schools was a new era in education and made it easier for children.
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Students were sent home during a global pandemic and some schools were online and some where completely stopped.
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