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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1775	New England Primer	This is the most common text book of the time until Noah Webster prints the Blue Back Speller.
12/31/1776	Average school days	The average school attendence in 1776 is 82 days
01/01/1778	Jeffersons Education Bill	Thomas Jefferson authors a billl in the Virgina Legislater. It mandates three years of education for all children. Also it would provide advanced education for a select few. In his words "raking a few genius' from the rubish." His bill we defeated 3 times from 1779-1817. A direct result of this bill was the univeristy of Virgina
01/01/1783	Blue Back speller	Noah webster published this in 1783, it was a spelling book based on american english. It was a precurser to the Webster Dictionary.
01/01/1837	Horace Mann	Horace Mann was the first secutray of Education in Massachusetts. He over saw and created the Common schools in Massachusetts.
01/01/1840	Great School Debates	Since the common school was based on and taught the Protastent faith cathloic students refused to go to school. Bishop John P. Hughes debates on creating a second cathloic based school and giving cathloics their share of the common school budget.
01/01/1842	Newyork board of education	The New York board of education replaces the public school society to run the New York schools. This is a responce to public presssure.
05/06/1844	Philidelphia Bible Roits	These were riots against the anit-cathloic sentiment in philidelphia and the rumor that teaching the bible was going to be removed from schools. At the end 13 people were dead and one church was burned.
01/01/1846	Protest & Petition on Boston Schools	This was a protest and petition to end segregation in Boston schools. It was brought by concerned parents who were helped by Fredrick Douglas.
02/02/1848	Average school days and cost for Massachuetts	1837: 4 months 1848: 7 months Cost 1837: 2.81 Per Pupil 1848: 4.80 Per Pupil
01/01/1849	Roberts v. City of Boston	Benjamin Roberts brought a suite for his daughter Sarah againts the city of Boston to end segregation in Boston schools. It eventually reached the Massachutetts Supreme court who ruled against roberts. This case was cited in 1896 by the US Supreme court as support for seperate but equal.
01/01/1855	Massachutestts Abolishes Segregation	In 1855 the Massachutetts Legislater abolished segregation in massachutetts public schools.
01/01/1858	Archbishop John P. Hughes	John p. hughes becomse the Archbishop of New York and uses his power and influence to create a Cathloic school system as the main alternative to the common school. It remains the dominitant alternative school to this day.
01/01/1865	Civil war ends	The civil war ends and slavery is abolished. For blacks in the south it was like an entire race went to school. There was no one too old or too young who didnt feel like they could use some schooling.
01/01/1865	Congress mandiates common school	After the civil war congress requires all states to guarantee public education in their constitutions.
01/01/1870	Westward expansion	With the expansion of America westward there was a great demand for teachers. Every town needed something to draw people to it. Schools were a popluar means of doing this. Most of the teachers that went west were women. Everyone wanted a women as a teacher because they were cheaper.
01/01/1890	Public schools budget and enrollment	Budget 1870: 63 million 1890: 141 million Enrollment 1870: 7.6 million 1890: 12.7 million
01/01/1900	Children in school	In 1900 over 50% of children are in school and the average ammount of time in school is 5 years
01/01/1900	School and Society	1900 John Dewey publishes School and Society. In it he lays out his ideas on education. He states that it should be progressive and based on a the child and not a given set of criteria.
01/01/1905	William A. Wirt	William A. Wirt was the school superintendent in Gary indiana. He implemented John Deweys ideas in the Gary school district. It is very sucessful and adopted in multipule school districts.
01/01/1910	Children at work	In 1910 over two million children are still working.
01/01/1917	New York Gary Riots	New York city riots over the use of the Gary plan, which is used in 30 schools. It was a result of the mayorial race and one of candidates characterized the gary plan as only preparation to work in the factories.
01/01/1918	Americanization movement	The americanization movment tried to teach only english and teach students american history and values. There was a burning of books in other langauges, celebration of christian holidays, and american songs and bible recitation.
01/01/1920	1920 School budget and graduation	Budget: 1 Billion dollars Graduation rate of 17 year olds: 17%
01/01/1938	Fair Labor and Standards Act	This act outlawed the use of chld labor
01/01/1945	Graduation rate 1900-1945	17 year old Highschool graduation rate 1900: 6% 1945: 45%
01/01/1950	Segregation	In 1950 segregation was allowed by law in 17 states.
01/01/1950	Average schooling for Mexican-Americans	Average schooling for Mexican-Americans: 5.4 years
01/01/1953	Educational Wasteland	Written by Arthur Bestor in it he put forth his view on the declining state of education in america.
01/01/1954	Brown v. Board of Eudcation	This was the Supreme Court case banning segregation in public schools. Although it was the law, there was no way for the federal government to enforce it.
01/01/1958	National Defense Education Act	This is a response to the cold war and the launch of sputnik. It shifted anouther 100 million dollars annually to education. Also it put alot of students much more heavily toward science and math.
01/01/1964	Black students still segregated	In 1964 98% of black students were still enrolled in all black schools.
01/01/1964	Civil Rights Act	This act banned discrimination in any federally funded progams. This finally gave the government a way to enforce the desegregation in public schools.
01/01/1965	Elementary and Secondary Eduacation Act	This creates new money for education. This totals 4 billion dollars. This is the leverage that was used to enforce the Civil rights act.
01/01/1968	Lyndon B. Johnson	LBJ becomes president of the united states. He is a former school teacher. He brings the focus of the presidency to education.
01/01/1968	Mexican-american drop outs	In 1968 Texas schools have a mexiacn-american drop out rate of 75%
01/01/1970	Banning of IQ tests in LA schools	Julian Nava was a highschool student who's brother insisted that he take college prep courses. He later went on graduate college and lead a movement to ban IQ testing in LA schools.
01/01/1970	Women Graduating with professional degrees	In 1970 only 1% of the Medical or Law degrees are conferred on Women.
01/01/1972	Black enrollment after civil rights act	By 1972 81% of black students are enrolled in desegrated schools.
01/01/1972	Title IX	This bans discrimination on the bases of sex in any federally funded program.
01/01/1974	Bi-lingual education	In 1974 the US Supreme court rules for bi-lingual education. This is in responce a challenge in San Francisco
01/01/1976	Children with disabilities act	Requires education and support be given to students with disabilities.
01/01/1980	Black college graduation	1950: 13.7% 1980: 51.4%
01/01/1980	Med and Law school degrees for women	1950: .095% 1980: 30%
01/01/1980	Average School Attendence	1950: 9 years 1980: 12.5 years
01/01/1983	Excellence in Education	President Regan annouces Excelence in Education. This puts more focus on high academic standards. This launched the era of high stakes testing.
01/01/1992	Result of Title IX	The results of Title IX 1992 40% of all highschool athletes are women 50% of all BA's given to women
01/01/1992	Choice	New York trys allowing choice. This lets parents take their kids to any school in New York of their chioce. It has minimul effect.
06/25/1992	Vouchers	Millwakie, Wisconsin enacts the first voucher program that allows parents to send their children to private school with public school funds.
01/01/1995	Home Schooling	Home schooling becomes more popluar.
01/01/1995	Public School budget	Budget reaches more then 300 Billion
01/01/1995	Baltimore Experiment	Education Alternative inc. Takes over nine baltimore schools and runs them for five years. Although the facilities and supplies were better taken care of there was no measurable difference in test scores.
01/23/2001	No Child Left Behind Act	President George W. Bush signs the NLCB Act. This requires that children be tested at every grade.
02/02/2001	Schooling enrollment, and types	Home School: 2.5% Vouchers: .035% Charter Schools: 2100 Charter Schools run for profit: 173 Public Schools : more then 90,000
01/01/2002	School enrollment	School enrollment is 47.8 million and almost 90% of children are enrolled in school.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
10/16/1758 to 05/28/1844	Noah Webster	Known as the School master of America. Webster believed that we should throw out all british textbooks and learn an american history so that schools turned out children as americans.
01/01/1770 to 01/01/1783	Private Schools	Schools were only available to those who could pay for them and only the wealthy couuld afford an education the wentr beyond primary level
01/01/1770 to 01/01/1783	Dame School	Dame schools were a gorified Day care. Some learning was incorporated for example children learned their letters and discipline.
01/01/1770 to 01/01/1783	Learning linked to the bible	All learning is linked to the bible. Bible passages are learned in school and a healthy fear of god and their parents is instilled.
01/01/1770 to 01/01/1840	Black schools	Black children learned in "sewing schools." They were there to learn how to sew, but text books were hidden under their sewing projects. This was done at the risk of death often times.
01/01/1840 to 01/01/1849	Black Schools in boston	Blacks were restricted to 2 schools in boston
01/01/1917 to 01/01/1933	Elwood P. Cubberley	Elwood was the dean of the education department at stanford. He put forth the Science of Education management. This outlined carreer tracking which was based in IQ tests and limiting students classes for what ever carrier they were suited.
01/01/1930 to 01/01/1950	IQ Tests	Form 1930-1950 IQ tests were given to public school students to determin carreer tracking. This was siginicantly biased againts minorties. Often minorties were not allowed to take college prep courses.
01/01/1940 to 01/01/1950	Life Adjustment Education	This was a popluar movement in the 1940's and 1950's. It was classes for student that were not going to go to college. These classes covered such things as a first date, how to ballence a checkbook, and childcare.
01/01/1954 to 01/01/1974	Black teachers displaced	An unintended result of Brown v. The board of Education was the displacment of 30,000 black school teachers.
01/01/1980 to 01/01/1999	Market Place Model for schools	This is the idea of applying the free market to schools. It started with outsourceing the running of school to private companies. All the services were better taken care of, but the education quality was not higher in any mersuarble way.