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Boston English High School Opens
The first public high school, Boston English High School, is founded and opened. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
This law upheld racial segregation in schools by stating they shall remain “separate but equal”. -
First Junior High School Opens - 1909
In an effort to expand education and better prepare students for High School, the first Junior High School, Indianola Junior High School was opened in Columbus Ohio. -
American Federation of Teachers
A labor union founded in Chicago, that is comprised of 60 percent of workers directly in the education field and the remainder of the union's membership being composed of paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; local, state and federal employees; higher education faculty and staff, and nurses and other healthcare professional that mainly represents teachers. -
Piaget’s theory is published
A theory that says children go through four stages of cognitive development: the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational periods. -
Brown v. Board of Education - 1954
A Supreme Court case that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, thus ending segregation in schools. -
First ACT Test
The American College Testing or ACT test was first administered as a competitor of the SAT and is now accepted by all four year institutions in America as a way to gauge students’ general educational development and their capability to complete college-level work. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Passed as a part of the "War on Poverty, this act funds primary and secondary education, as well as emphasizing equal access to education and establishing high standards and accountability. -
No Child Left Behind Act
This act supported a standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education, requiring states to develop assessments in basic skills in order to receive federal school funding. -
Every Student Succeeds Act
A revision of the earlier NCLB Act of 2002, this act maintained the annual standardized testing requirements of this previous act however, shifted the law's federal accountability provisions to states, bringing Common Core standards into many schools.