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Ruby Bridges enrolled In Caucasian classroom
Ruby Bridges becomes he first African American child in the William Frantz Elementary school. Soon is the only studnet in the class as parents of caucasian children take out there child. -
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History of Multicultural Eduation
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Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act becomes law. It prohbits discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin -
The Science of Education
Jean Piaget's Learning Cycle model in his book The Science of Education turns discovery-based teaching approaches into a more common practice in the sciences -
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 becomes Law
This law prohibits the discrimination based on sex in education and in sports. This law is typically associated with the discrimination against females participating in sports. -
The National Association of Billingual Education is founded
This was to be a non-profit organization whos focuse was to make sure that language-minority students could succeed academically with the same equal opportunities as any other student would. -
The Start of "online campuses"
The University of Phoenix establishes the first to offer a online campus for bachelors and masters degrees and the largest private university in North America -
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
IDEA was set to change and amend Public Law 94-142. it changed the terminology of handicap to disability and adding autism and traumatic brain injury to the original eligibility list. -
Beginning of Google
Larry Page and Sergey Brin went from setting up Google in their garage to having their search engine registered as an official domain. -
No Child Left Behind Act gets approved by Congress
Signed by George W. Bush , reauthorizing ESEA of 1965 and replacing Bilingual Education Act in 1968. This holds schools accountable for the student achievement levels. If the schools do not meet the goals for the NCLB, the act provides penalties. -
Free 2 year College Plan announced by Barack Obama
President Obama makes announces a plan for students to get a free college education for 2 years, if they make good grades and stay on track for graduation.
