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States that the Regent Prayer is a violation of the 1st Amendment and specifies that it is to be done in the state at the beginning of each school day.
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Reaffirming Engel vs Vitale, the Supreme Court rules that "no state law or school board may require that passages from the Bible be read or that the Lord's Prayer be recited in the public schools . . . even if individual students may be excused from attending or participating . . ."
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An education program for children who are in pre-school that are of low-income families and begins as an eight-week summer program. It was also for the "War on Poverty."
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Act to increase federal aid to higher education and provides for scholarships, student loans, and establishes a National Teachers Corps.
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States that African American children benefit from attending integrated schools sets the stage for school "busing" to achieve desegregation.
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Jerome Bruner's publication that brought up his views on helping to popularize the cognitive learning theory as an alternative to behaviorism.
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Arkansas' law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in a public school or university is ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
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A law requiring that children referred for possible special education placement be tested in their primary language.
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Students with mental retardation are entitled to a free public education by the federal courts.
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Michael Hart, founder of Project Guttenberg, created a book publication in digital form.
