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The First Public School Opens
The Boston Latin School was the first public school opened in the United States -
Common School Movement
A movement to provide free education to all students, regardless of wealth, heritage, or class which was started by a guy named Horace Mann, who became the first Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education -
Compulsory Education Law
Required every city and town to offer primary school, focusing on grammar and basic arithmetic -
Progressive Education Movement
to educate the whole child and attend to physical, emotional, and intellectual growth by learning through doing. The theory was that a child learns best by actually performing tasks associated with learning -
Percentage of Children in School
79 percent of all American children between the ages of five and seventeen were enrolled in schools -
Brown vs Board
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional -
The Little Rock Nine
Nine black students had to be escorted by federal troops through an angry mob of white people as they walked toward the doors of an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, for their first full day of classes -
No child Left Behind Act
Provide equal educational opportunities for disadvantaged students, held schools accountable for how kids learn and achieve in several ways and it penalized schools that didn’t show improvement. -
Every Student Succeeds Act
Upholds critical protections for America's disadvantaged students, requires students in America to be taught high academic standards to prepare for college and careers, ensures important info is provided to educators, families, students, and communities by yearly statewide tests that measure progress towards those high standards, helps support and grow local innovations, & maintains an expectation that accountability is held to effect positive change in low-performing schools