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Cuban immigrant children arrived in Miami
After the Cuban Revolution, Coral Way Elementary School starts the first bilingual and bicultural public school in the United States. From this movement, it has led to other bilingual schools and showed the importance of teaching other languages. -
Samuel A. Kirk uses the term learning disability
He used this term at the Chicago conference to describe children with perceptual disorders. In 1964, the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities later became the Learning Disabilities Association of America. This impacted teaching and education by being able to identify the different needs of these children and how to help them learn. -
Project Head Start
This preschool education program for children from low-income families begins as an eight-week summer program and helps these children by giving them the supplies and necessities they need. This impacts education by providing more students the chance to get a good education instead of just the students who can afford it. -
The Indian Education Act
This Act provided the American Indian and Alaska Native students an opportunity to have their needs met. They have aspects of their culture that must be taught and passed down alongside their academic lessons. -
Title IX of the Education Amendments
This amendment becomes law and prohibits any discrimination of gender in all aspects of education. Girls were allowed to join every sports team a school had to offer and since then we've even seen an increase in boys joining dance classes. Although it is still few and far between some girls have also joined the football teams. -
Federal Judge Arthur Garrity
He wanted to eliminate segregation in schools by ordering African American students to be bused to predominantly white schools. This started a movement of racial integration throughout the schools and many parents complained about this movement. From this movement, it is now common and expected to see an integraded school. -
John Holt's book
His book, "Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education" talks about the benefits of homeschooling. This book showed that learning can be down outside of a traditional learning environment. -
Study of Computer Science
After the National Commission on Excellence in Education published A Nation at Risk report teachers and education redefined what they were teaching and how they were teaching it. Students started to learn how to use computers and were taught about how they would be beneficial in the near future. -
CompuHigh Whitmorte
This high school became the first all online high school. This impacted education by expanding the realm of how students could learn and that they could feel safe from discrimination or bias. -
The Minnesota State High School League
Minnesota adopted a formal transgender student policy and was the 33rd state to do so. This impact allows these students a chance to learn in a safer space and allows others to learn and understand what these students are going through.
