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First Public School
On April 23, 1635, the first public school was established in Boston, Massachusetts. Known as the Boston Latin School. It was an all boy school. The school taught Latin and Greek and was centered on the humanities. Some of the Boston Latin School’s most well-known alumni include John Hancock and Samuel Adams.
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American School for the Deaf
The American School for the Deaf is founded in Connetituct. It is the oldest permanent school for the deaf. In 1819, the American School for the Deaf became the first school of primary and secondary education to receive aid from the federal government when it was granted $300,000. As a result of its pivotal role in American deaf history, it also hosts a museum containing numerous rare and old items.
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First Special Education Class
Elizabeth E. Farrell is known for being the first person to teach a class of special education students in America. It was in her NYC teaching position that she created an ungraded class of 19 students, 12 diagnosed as retarded. They ranged in age from 8-16 years. By 1903 New York City had organized 10 special classes, modeled after Farrell's This number grew to 14 in 1906 and then to 131 in 1911. Farrell was appointed as director of this special education program. -
School Transportation
In 1919, All states have laws in place to provide public funding for school transportation. The primary reasons that states passed such legislation appear to be state-mandated, compulsory school attendance and the consolidation of public schools.The standard means of transporting children to and from school in the nineteenth century was the school wagon. -
Council for Exceptional Children
Elizabeth E. Farrell founded and was the first president of the Council for Exceptional Children. The council for Exceptional Children is a national organization advocating for children who are gifted and /or talented, or who have disabilities. Based in the Washington, D.C. area since its inception, CEC is a strong advocate for parents, teachers and administrators of special education
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Fist SAT test is taken
The first administration of the SAT was given and it was known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test. This test had sections of definitions, arithmetic, classification, artificial language, antonyms, number series, analogies, logical inference, and paragraph reading. It was administered to over 8,000 students at over 300 test centers. 60% of the test takers were men. -
Lunch for all students
The program was established under the National School Lunch Act, signed by President Harry Truman in 1946.The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day.The National School Lunch Program serves 30.5 million children each day at a cost of $8.7 billion for fiscal year 2007. -
Brown V Board of Education
Brown V Board of Education ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Lau v Nichols
Lau v Nichols was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously decided that the lack of supplemental language instruction in public school for students with limited English proficiency violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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No Child Left Behind
Was signed into law by President George W. Bush. The law increases federal funding for education. Proponents argue that it has increased schools’accountability, while some opponents
say it has made testing the focus of education, at the expense of critical thinking.
