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Old Deluder Satan Act
America's earliest law relating to education that required a town of fifty or more families to hire a primary school teacher for children. Towns of 100 or more families were required to appoint a Latin teacher. -
Development of Common Schools
The Northeast began to establish what were referred to by Horace Mann as common schools that were publicly funded and therefore free to families and accessible to all children. -
State Board of Education
In Massachusetts, the first state board of education was created to oversee schools and the quality of its teachers and develop curricula. -
Development of First Normal School
Founded in Lexington, Massachusetts and promoted and developed by Horace Mann as state-funded post-secondary institutions. Mann helped build new and bigger schools that arranged children into grades based on their age. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Said to be one of the most important rulings in America's progress towards equalizing education. This case ruled that segrated schools based on race "are not equal and cannot be made equal, and hence they are deprived of the equal protection of the laws,' according to Chief Justice Earl Warren.
