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Ye Olde Deluder Satan" Law
The law required towns that had 50 households to appoint and pay for a teacher to instruct all children to read and write. This is important because it is the start of literacy in the new colonies. The beginning to a very bright future in the education system. -
Committe of Ten
The National Education Association (NEA) appointed a committee of Ten to establish a standard high school curriculum for students planning to attend college. This movement allowed students to focus of their career at a younger age. -
Committee Of Fifteen
The committee of fifteen endorsed the traditional subject centered courses: grammar, literature, arithmetic, geography, and history. Elementary curriculum report urged that academic topics be correlated with not taught in isolation form the arts. The committee of brought a curriculum for elementary students that was tangible and complete. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Congress wrote, “That "separate but equal" was "inherently unequal." According to this decision, the practice of segregating public school children solely on the basis of race deprived minority children of equivalent educational opportunities, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors might be identical. The congress ruled in favor on Brown became a watershed moment for American education and for larger society as well." -
No Child Left Behind
This was a federal government’s first serious attempt to hold, states, districts, and schools accountable for remedying the unequal achievement among different students. This gave the schools in the public education system accountability. The No Child Left behind Act also guaranteed that only highly qualified teachers be available in each core subject classroom. If a school was "failing" they would be liable for a range of penalties.
