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Boston Latin Grammer School
Founded on April 23, 1635, is the oldest public school in America. It offered free education to boys - rich or poor - while girls attended private schools at home.
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Harvard College
Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was named after the College’s first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown, who upon his death in 1638 left his library and half his estate to the institution.
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Old Deluder Satan Law
keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues, that so that at least the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded and corrupted with false glosses of saint-seeming deceivers
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New England Primer Published
The New England Primer was a textbook used by students in New England and in other English settlements in North America. It was first printed in Boston in 1690 by Benjamin Harris who had published a similar volume in London. It was used by students into the 19th century. Over five million copies of the book were sold
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South Carolina denies Education To Black
South Carolina’s Slave Code of 1740 was a series of laws aimed at controlling the population of enslaved African Americans. It prohibited slaves from gathering without white supervision, learning to read and write, and growing their own food. It also created harsher punishments for disobeying the law. uprisings.
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Franklin Academy
Franklin Academy is the fulfillment of a long-held dream among educators, parents, and consultants who realized that many schools across the country were not yet ready to meet the complex, multi-faceted needs of bright and talented students with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Asperger's Syndrome, especially those seeking a comprehensive college preparatory education.
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Noah Webster American Spelling Book
best known for his compilation of the American English dictionary, was also famous in his day for The American Spelling Book. This book, first published in 1783, was a very popular textbook for young children in the nineteenth century. By the end of the century, it had sold 100 million
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Land Ordinance Act
The Ordinance of 1785 was landmark legislation. By preparing this means for selling Western lands, the government introduced a system that would remain the foundation of U.S. public land policy until the enactment of the Homestead Act of 1862. Modifications, however, would occur over the years as it became apparent that $640 was more than many could afford and, similarly, that 640 acres was too large for most family farms.
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First Endowed Secondary School For Girls
established in 1821 by Emma Hart Willard in Troy, New York, the first in the country founded to provide young women with an education comparable to that of college-educated young men. At the time of the seminary’s founding, women were barred from colleges. Although academies for girls existed, their curricula were limited to such “female arts” as conversational French and embroidery. [link text] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Troy-Female-Seminary -
First Public High Shcool
English High was founded in 1821 as the United States’ first public high school, and its graduates include J. P. Morgan and Maj. Gen. Matthew Ridgway from the Korean War. Today, its student body, dressed mostly in baggy jeans and do-rags, is one of the most diverse in the city, and one of its lowest-performing, too.
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First Private Normal School
The first normal schools in the United States were started in New England in the 1820s as private institutions, such as the one founded in Concord, Vermont by Samuel Read Hall in 1823
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Required Public High School
Presents the text of the Massachusetts High School Law of 1827, a law mandating that each town in the state be supplied with a high school and teachers. Provisions of the law.
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Horace Mann Becomes Secretary Of Board Of Education
Horace Mann practiced law before serving in the state Legislature and Senate. Named secretary of the new Massachusetts board of education in 1837, he overhauled the state's public-education system and established a series of schools to train teachers. He was later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and served as president of Antioch College in Ohio until his death in 1859.
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First Public Normal Shcool
he normal schools attempted to provide the prospective teacher with a laboratory for learning, using model classrooms as a place to practice their new skills. The emphasis was on common everyday learning. The colleges, with their classical curriculums, looked down on the normal schools. The normal school crusade advocated teaching as a profession.
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First Kindergarten
There was a kindergarten in Water town, Wisconsin, founded by
Margrethe Schulz in 1856. Elizabeth Peabody had established one in Boston in 1873. But the first kindergarten in the world was founded by a man named Friedrich Frostbelt.
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Morrill Land Grant College
Land-Grant College Act of 1862, or Morrill Act, Act of the U.S. Congress (1862) that provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts.”
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Kalamazoo Case
In 1875 a lawsuit was filed in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to collect public funds for the support of a village high school. The town had used taxes to support the school for thirteen years without complaints from the citizens. The defendants in the case, the school officials, felt that a select few out of thousands need not dispute their obligation to pay taxes for the purpose of supporting a high school.
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Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court
n Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of a Louisiana law passed in 1890 "providing for separate railway carriages for the white and colored races." The law, which required that all passenger railways provide separate cars for blacks and whites, stipulated that the cars be equal in facilities, banned whites from sitting in black cars and blacks in white cars
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First Junior High School
The first junior high school was establish in Berkeley, California.it was established in January 1909.
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Smith-Hughes Act
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Progressive education programs
During most of the twentieth century, the term "progressive education" has been used to describe ideas and practices that aim to make schools more effective agencies of a democratic society. Although there are numerous differences of style and emphasis among progressive educators, they share the conviction that democracy means active participation by all citizens in social, political and economic decisions that will affect their lives
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New Deal education programs
By the time Franklin Roosevelt took office in March of 1933, America’s schools, teachers and students had suffered enormously from the Great Depression. Many rural schools in other parts of the country were forced to close their doorsIn response to the crisis, the Roosevelt Administration provided immediate relief in the form of a $20 million federal appropriation.
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G.I. Bill of Rights
A bill that legislation passed in 1944 that provided benefits to World War II veterans. Through the Veterans Administration (VA), the bill provided grants for school and college tuition, low-interest mortgage and small-business loans, job training, hiring privileges, and unemployment payments. Amendments to the act provided for full disability coverage and the construction of additional VA hospitals.
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Brown v. Board of Education
This court case is now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
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Sputnik leads to increased federal education funds
Education experts said Oct. 4 that the United States may be overdue for a science education overhaul like the one undertaken after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite 50 years ago, and predicted that a window for change may open as the Iraq war winds down.
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National Defense Education Act
igned into law by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 2, 1958, that provided funding to improve American schools and to promote postsecondary education. The goal of the legislation was to enable the country’s educational system to meet the demands posed by national security needs.
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Job Corps and Head Start are funded
Head Start is a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families.
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Elementary and Secondary Act
passed as a part of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty" and has been the most far-reaching federal legislation affecting education ever passed by the United States Congress.
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Bilingual Education Act
as the first piece of United States federal legislation that recognized the needs of Limited English Speaking Ability (LESA) students. The BEA was introduced in 1967 by Texas senator Ralph Yarborough and was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on January 2, 1968. As such, it was the first federal legislation signed into law in the 1968 calendar year.
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Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in schools
Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. The principal objective of Title IX is to avoid the use of federal money to support sex discrimination in education programs and to provide individual citizens effective protection against those practices.
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Public Law 94-142, Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Guaranteed a free appropriate public education to each child with a disability. This law had a dramatic, positive impact on millions of children with disabilities in every state and each local community across the country.
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Cabinet-level Department of Education is established
The Department is a relative newcomer among Cabinet-level agencies, its origins goes back to 1867, when President Johnson signed legislation creating the first Department of Education. Its main purpose was to collect information and statistics about the nation's schools. However, due to concern that the Department would exercise too much control over local schools, the new Department was demoted to an Office of Education in 1868.
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No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind law—the 2002 update of the Elementary ,and Secondary Education Act—effectively scaled up the federal role in holding schools accountable for student outcomes.
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Race to the Top
The $4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund is the largest-ever federal competitive investment in school reform. It will reward states for past accomplishments, create incentives for future improvements, and challenge states to create comprehensive strategies for addressing the four central areas of reform that will drive school improvement.
https://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/factsheet.html
