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The first Colonial College, Harvard
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The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony decrees that every town of fifty families should have an elementary school.
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The "Northwest Territory"
The law created "townships," reserving a portion of each township for a local school. From these "land grants" eventually came the U.S. system of "land grant universities," the state public universities that exist today. -
Education only for poor people.
Pennsylvania state constitution calls for free public education but only for poor children. It is expected that rich people will pay for their children's schooling. -
State Control of Education
When the 10th Amendment of the United States Constitution is passed, the individual states gain the right to control education. -
First public high school in the U.S.
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Compulsory Education
Massachusetts passed a law making education mandatory. This spread throughout the country, and the final state adopt it was Mississippi. -
The U.S. Supreme Court requires California to extend public education to the children of Chinese immigrants.
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SAT
The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) was first administered. -
ACT
Everett Franklin Lindquist administered the first ACT test as as direct competition to the SAT.