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Boston Latin Grammar Schools
The oldest public school in america. It offered free education to boys - rich or poor - while girls attended private schools at home.Until the completion of the schoolhouse in 1645, classes were held in the home of the first headmaster, Philemon Pormort. A mosaic and a statue of former student Benjamin Franklin currently marks the School Street location of the original schoolhouse. /www.thefreedomtrail.org/freedom-trail/benjamin-franklin-statue.shtml -
Harvard College
Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Old Deluder Satan Law
A few years later, Massachusetts passed the Law of 1647, commonly called the Deluder Satan Act, which required that towns of a certain size hire a schoolmaster to teach local children. In this way, the burden of education was shifted from the parents to the local community.
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New England Primer published
The New England Primer was a textbook used by students in New England and in other English settlements in North America. It was first printed in Boston in 1690 by Benjamin Harris who had published a similar volume in London. It was used by students into the 19th century. Over five million copies of the book were sold. -
South Carolina denies education to blacks
Fearing that black literacy would prove a threat to the slave system -- which relied on slaves' dependence on masters -- whites in many colonies instituted laws forbidding slaves to learn to read or write and making it a crime for others to teach them.
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Opening of the Franklin Academy in philadelphia
The Academy of Philadelphia was founded to provide a classical education with a modern twist. An advertisement at the time of its opening in January of 1751 offered teaching in the following areas:
writing, arithmetic, and mathematics (merchants' accounts, geometry, algebra, surveying, gauging, navigation, astronomy, drawing in perspective, and other mathematical sciences)
natural and mechanical philosophy
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Noah Webster's American Spelling book
Noah Webster (1758-1843), best known for his compilation of the American English dictionary, was also famous in his day for The American Spelling Book. This book, first published in 1783, was a very popular textbook for young children in the nineteenth century. By the end of the century,
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Land Ordinance Act, Northwest Ordinance
The Ordinance of 1785 put the 1784 resolution in operation by providing a mechanism for selling and settling the land, while the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 addressed political needs. The 1785 ordinance laid the foundations of land policy until passage of the Homestead Act in 1862. -
Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary opens, first endowed secondary school for girls
Troy Female Seminary, subsequently called (from 1895) Emma Willard School, American educational institution, established in 1821 by Emma Hart Willard in Troy, New York, the first in the country founded to provide young women with an education comparable to that of college-educated young men. At the time of the seminary’s founding, women were barred from colleges.
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First public high school opens in boston
The English High School of Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the first public high schools in America, founded in 1821. Originally called The English Classical School, it was renamed The English High School upon its first relocation in 1824. The current building is located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
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First (private) normal school opens in Vermont ( Rev. Samuel Hall)
The English High School of Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the first public high schools in America, founded in 1821. Originally called The English Classical School, it was renamed The English High School upon its first relocation in 1824. The current building is located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
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Massachusetts requires public high schools
The Massachusetts Education Reform Law of 1993, state law, G.L. c. 69, § 1D, requires that all students who are seeking to earn a high school diploma, including students educated at public expense in educational collaboratives and approved and unapproved private special education schools within and outside the state, must meet the Competency Determination (CD) standard, in addition to meeting all local graduation requirements
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Horace Mann becomes secretary of board of education in Massachusetts
Horace Mann, often called the Father of the Common School, began his career as a lawyer and legislator. When he was elected to act as Secretary of the newly-created Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837, he used his position to enact major educational reform. He spearheaded the Common School Movement, ensuring that every child could receive a basic education funded by local taxes.
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First public normal school in Lexington, Massachusetts (Horace Mann)
Most such schools are now denominated "teachers' colleges". ... The first public normal school in the United States was founded in Concord, Vermont, by Horace Mann in 1823 to train teachers. In 1839, another normal school was established in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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First kindergarten (German language) in united states
In the United States Margarethe Schurz founded the first kindergarten in Watertown, Wisconsin, in 1856. Her German-language kindergarten impressed Elizabeth Peabody, who opened the first American English-language kindergarten in Boston in 1860.
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Morrill Land Grant College Act
Land-Grant College Act of 1862, or Morrill Act, Act of the U.S. Congress (1862) that provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts.”
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Kalamazoo case (legalizes taxes for high schools)
In 1875 a lawsuit was filed in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to collect public funds for the support of a village high school. The town had used taxes to support the school for thirteen years without complaints from the citizens. The defendants in the case, the school officials, felt that a select few out of thousands need not dispute their obligation to pay taxes for the purpose of supporting a high school.
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Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision supporting racially separate but equal schools
Brewer took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" -
First junior high school in Berkeley, California
In 1916 the first Willard School was constructed with bonds approved in 1915. The architects were Hobart and Cheney. The first principal was Mr. W.B. Clark. The students and the principal transferred in from the McKinley School. The school was described at this time as specializing in preparing students for the University literary courses.
In approximately 1926 the school included four buildings and 32 classrooms. There were 844 students enrolled at the school.
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Smith-Hughes Act (fund vocational classes)
The Smith-Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917 was an act of the United States Congress that promoted vocational agriculture to train people "who have entered upon or who are preparing to enter upon the work of the farm," and provided federal funds for this purpose. -
Progressive education program
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New Deal education programs
When President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to try and stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. Over the next eight years, the government instituted a series of experimental projects and programs, known collectively as the New Deal, that aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many Americans. More than that, Roosevelt’s New Deal permanently changed the federal government’s relationship to the U.S. populace. -
G.I. Bill of Rights
G.I. Bill (of Rights), also called Servicemen's Readjustment Act, U.S. legislation passed in 1944 that provided benefits to World War II veterans.
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Brown v. Board of Education Act (NDEA) funds science, math, and foreign language programs
Before the Supreme Court’s monumental
decision banning racial
segregation in schooling in Brown
v. Board of Education (1954),
the federal government had little direct
involvement in national education policy.
Subsequently, the federal government has
assumed a major role in setting national
education policy.
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Sputnik leads to increase federal education funds
When Sputnik's "beep" first reached Earth on Oct. 4, 1957, many Americans dreaded that the Russian satellite was spying on them.The Soviets' history-making accomplishment — launching a satellite into orbit — created both paranoia and concern that the Soviets had beaten Americans into space. That concern sparked a much-needed revolution in scientific education in the U.S. -
National defense Education Act (NDEA) funds science, math, and foreign language programs
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Job Corps and Head Start are funded
a detailed allocation of ARRA funds used for Job Corps projects and the resulting effects on Job Corps centers, staff members, students, and local small business owners and economies nationwide. -
Elementary and Secondary Act (ESEA)
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed by President Obama on December 10, 2015, and represents good news for our nation’s schools. This bipartisan measure reauthorizes the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the nation’s national education law and longstanding commitment to equal opportunity for all students.
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Bilingual Education Act
The Bilingual Education Act (BEA), Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1968, was the first piece of United States federal legislation that recognized the needs of Limited English Speaking Ability (LESA) students.
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Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in schools
On June 23, 1972, the President signed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C.. Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. -
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Public Law 94-142, education for All handicapped Children Act (renamed the Individuals with disabilities in Education Act)
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (sometimes referred to using the acronyms EAHCA or EHA, or Public Law (PL) 94-142) was enacted by the United States Congress in 1975. ... The act was an amendment to Part B of the Education of the Handicapped Act enacted in 1966. -
Cabinet-level Department of Education is established
The United States Department of Education, also referred to as the ED for the Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. Recreated by the Department of Education Organization Act and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 17, 1979, it began operating on May 4, 1980. -
No Child Left Behind Act calls for state standards and annual testing (President George Bush)
The No Child Left Behind law—the 2002 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—effectively scaled up the federal role in holding schools accountable for student outcomes. -
Race to the Top (President Barack Obama)
outed as Obama’s education reform magnum opus, Race to the Top aimed to sustain successful teachers and principals in school districts across the nation. It was also responsible for the adoption of common K-12 teaching standards. Per the competitive component of this ‘race,’ states received points for fulfilling certain criteria, such as performance-based standards for teachers and principals, showing fidelity to nationwide standards, encouraging charter schools.
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