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Pre-1600s
Education is passed on from elders to the next generatiom: from parents to children. Only what was needed to operate a farm was taught to most. -
Pre-1600s
Education is passed on from elders to the next generatiom: from parents to children. Only what was needed to operate a farm was taught to most. -
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Education
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A New form of Education
The first public school is opened in Boston named the Boston Latin school that is the first and oldest school in America. Schools then concisted of one headmaster and several students of all ages in a one room school house. -
Cumpolsory Education
New England schools began to make school compulsory, meaning that every young boy had to go to shcool until a certain age when they could leave to go work on their family farm. -
Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin founds the first public school in America. -
Government steps in
The first government operated/ government funded public school in America opens in Boston. -
High School
Massachusetts becomes the first state to make high schools compulsory and many states soon follow. -
Black Education
Soon after the Civil War, freed African Americans began to get public school education, but were not given proper treatment that they deserved at the time. -
Free education
All New England schools had free elementary education. -
Plessy vs. Furgeson
Plessy vs. Furgeson was a Supreme Court trial over equality in America. The verdict was "sperate but equal" meaning that as long as blacks and whites shared towns and schools, they did not have to share any of the same businesses or appliances, asa long as they had EQUAL appliances or business. Unfortunately, blacks had the same materials at hand for them, but they were rarely ever equal. -
Compulsory Laws
30 states required every youth member to be in school until the age of fourteen. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
another Supreme court case that declared segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson. -
Special Education
Congress passed several laws that created free, appropriate education for all children with disabilities. -
SMARTer education
The SMART board was introduced to allow moer oppurtunities to teachers as they increase and advance theri teachiong styles to properly teach the more technologically advanced information. -
No Child Left Behind
Starting in 2002, Congress passed laws that required students in every grade to pass standardized reading and math test to observe where students were academically in each school. -
Keystones
After not achieving their goals of 100% of students being proficient in the No Child Left Behind policy by 2014, Congress took a different approach and issued tests in biology, algebra, and literature that were neccissary to be passed in order to graduate.