Education through the years

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    Education Through Time

  • Boston Latin Grammar School

    Boston Latin Grammar School
    Prepared boys for ministry and law
  • Harvard College Opens

    Harvard College Opens
    Harvard College, the first higher education institution in what is now the United States, is established in Newtowne (now Cambridge), Massachusetts
  • The Old Deluder Satan Act

    The Old Deluder Satan Act
    The Old Deluder Satan Act - designed to produce citizens who understood the bible. Lucifer - town of 50 or more households to have a teacher
  • William Berkley

    William Berkley
    No free schools - supported inequality in American schools
  • Colonial Period

    Colonial Period
    Roots of American education system are established for just wealthy white men and the teachers were men
  • Early National Period

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    End of Early National Period

  • 1st Amendment

    1st Amendment
    First Amendment - Separation of Church and State
  • The Land Ordinance of 1785

    The Land Ordinance of 1785
    Specifies that the western territories are to be divided into townships made up of 640-acre sections, one of which was to be set aside "for the maintenance of public schools. (About 50 students means a school)
  • State Responsibility

    State Responsibility
    Constitution removes formal religion from schools and establishes State Responsibility
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    Rise of State support for Public Education

  • English Classical School

    English Classical School
    Focused on needs of boys not attending college
  • Horace Mann

    Horace Mann
    Secretary of Massachusetts state board of education
    Most important legacy was tax supported elementary schools should be a right to all citizens
  • First School Superintendant

    First School Superintendant
    Was in Louisville, Kentucky
  • New York State Asylum for Idiots

    New York State Asylum for Idiots
    For mentally disabled children and adults
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XMndYNEGFA
  • 50% of American children enrolled in school

    50% of American children enrolled in school
    Tax supported public schools were firmly established
  • Boston creates the first public day school for the deaf.

    Boston creates the first public day school for the deaf.
  • The Dewey Decimal System

    The Dewey Decimal System
    Developed by Melvil Dewey in 1873, is published and patented. Still used to this day. Helped with research.
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson
    Black train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. Equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races for railroads and applied to everything else.
  • Commitee of Ten

    Commitee of Ten
    Created standards and methods for high school
  • First Junior High, Columbus Ohio

    First Junior High, Columbus Ohio
    Provide unique education for adolescence - Indianola Junior High
  • First Montessori School

    First Montessori School
    Tarrytown, New York
  • Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education

    Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education
    Created cardinal principles of education including applied goals in civic and health education
  • First Sucessful School Desegregation

    First Sucessful School Desegregation
    Alvarez v. Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District - Forbid Mexican-American students from not attending a normal school
  • First Sucessful School Desegregation

    First Sucessful School Desegregation
    Alvarez v. Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District - Forbid Mexican-American students from not attending a normal school
  • WPA (Works Progress Adminstration)

    Part of New Deal which built new school buildings.
  • Laszio Biro and his brother Georg patent the ballpoint pen.

     Laszio  Biro and his brother Georg patent the ballpoint pen.
    When it first hit the market in 1946, a ballpoint pen sold for around $10, roughly equivalent to $100 today. When the Bic Cristal hit American markets in 1959, the price was down to 19 cents a pen.
  • SAT

    SAT
    Started as a test to get into Harvard, but College board adopted it.
  • National School Lunch Act

    National School Lunch Act
    Permanent lunch situation - Aid for school for lunch programs
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
    "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal"
  • Little Rock 9 Attend Central High School

    Little Rock 9 Attend Central High School
    Federal troops enforce integration in Little Rock, Arkansas as the Little Rock 9 enroll at Central High School.
  • ACT

    ACT
    Everett Franklin Lindquist developed the ACT as a competitor for the SAT
  • Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

    Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
    Start of Title 1 and help for Bilingual students.
  • Bilingual Education Act

    Bilingual Education Act
    The Bilingual Education Act, also know as Title VII, becomes law. Requires Bilingual teachingAfter many years of controversy, the law is repealed in 2002 and replaced by the No Child Left Behind Act.
  • Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972

    Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972
    Eliminated Gender Bias in school and sports
  • Lau v Nichols

    Lau v Nichols
    Federal court ruled that the San Francisco school system had violated the rights of Chinese American students and students who found their educational experience "wholly incomprehensible" should be taught in their first language if that language was not English"
  • No Child Left Behind Act

    No Child Left Behind Act
    Increased the federal role in holding schools responsible for the academic progress of all students. And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English-language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children
  • Vergara v California

    Vergara v California
    First state to weaken teaching tenure protections
  • Every Student Succeeds Act

    Every Student Succeeds Act
    Replaces No Child Left Behind - Allows more state control in judging school equality
  • President-elect Donald Trump names school-choice advocate Betsy DeVos Secretary of Education.

    President-elect Donald Trump names school-choice advocate Betsy DeVos Secretary of Education.
    Who knows where this will take us?