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Colonial Period
1642 - Massachusetts Bay School Law is out into place stating that parents are required to enroll their children in school and they were educated in the principle of religion and capital laws and common wealth
1635 - Boston Latin School is built as the first public school and is the oldest existing school in the us
1772 - Salem North Carolina builds a school for young girls -
national period
Dec 1, 1776 - Girls are taught to cook, sew and other things pertaining to household work while boys attended grammar school and learned to be shopkeepers or craftsmen
Jan 27, 1820 - Thomas Jefferson believed education should be opened to new citzens and all the poor to have an education with publicly supported school systems
Jan 27, 1821 - First public hghschool is opened in Boston -
common school movement
jul 3, 1839 - the first " normal school " is opened in Lexington MA
1857 - The National Teachers Association is created 43 teachers in Philadelphia come together and form this united voice for public education
1865 - 13th amendment is passed abolishing slavery -
search for equality
jan 1 , 1830 - common schools were founded by local property taxes, charged no tuition, were open to all white children
sep 15, 1930 - feminization of teaching suffrage movement established equality between men and women and allowed women to take up the teaching position
sep 15, 1950 - civil rights movement made the federal goverment to equalize opportunities for children of color -
evolution of American high school
1893 - committee of ten is created and proposed that all public high school students receive a strong liberal arts education
1965 - elementary and secondary education passed to promote equal education opportunities and accountability
jun 6, 2001 - no child left behind act provided educational equity for low income families -
modern era
2020 - covid hits across the globe enforcing a quarantine and online schooling for everyone
community college becomes common in society offering a cheap quality education to less fortunate and not able to pay for college
2022 - current president Joe Biden announces a plan to relieve up to 20,000 dollars in student debt