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Boston Latin School becomes the first public school as well as the oldest existing school in the U.S.
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Benjamin Harris prints The New England Primer
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Noah Webster finishes A Grammatical Institute of the English Language
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States gain control over education
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George Pillans invents the chalkboard
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Oberlin College becomes the first U.S. college to admit both men and women.
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Margarethe Schurz founds first kindergarten in Watertown, Wisconsin
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The National Teacher’s Association is founded by forty-three teachers in Philadelphia
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The first Department of Education is created
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The Pledge of Allegiance is first used in public schools on Columbus Day.
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Richard Prentice Ettinger creates loose leaf textbook
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Mandatory school attendance laws are in place in every state
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The Scholastic Aptitude Test is given for the first time
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Frank W. Cyr leads standardization of school buses
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The National School Lunch Program is created
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Congress passes the National Defense Education Ac
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The first ACT test is administered by Everett Franklin Lindquist.
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Head Start is created by Jule Sugarman
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McCarver Elementary School is the first magnet school
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Michael S. Hart invents the e-book
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3-D printers allow educators to teach students about concepts such as engineering and then let the students apply it on a small scale.
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TI-81 calculator is invented
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CompuHigh opens as first online highschool
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The Box Tops for Education program is created by General Mills
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Blogs and Wikis allow for faster research and discussion among students
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Word processors are used in the classroom.
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Presentation software such as Prezi are being used to convey information in the classroom.
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Digital storytelling allows for the most reluctant students to learn to engage in writing.
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Drill and practice programs help students to improve their fluency many different areas
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Schools are moving to ubiquitous computing to allow for each student to have access to a mobile device in and out of the classroom
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Document cameras allow for increased participation in science classrooms so that students don't have to crowd around tables as much.
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Spreadsheets allow students to track and organize data in science classrooms.
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Virtual field trips allow students to "travel" through the internet to view remote areas and learn more about them.
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Tutorial software allows teachers to use computers let students learn at their own pace.
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Virtual schools allow for students to earn credits they may have otherwise not had access to.
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Computers help in enabling kids with special needs to have the most normal classroom experience possible
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Simulations are used to aid in teaching subjects that would be too expensive or dangerous to normally cover.
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The North American Council for Online Learning is created
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The Common Core State Standards Initiative is launched