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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.[2] The current building is located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
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independent university-preparatory day and boarding school for young women, located in Troy, New York, offering grades 9–12 and postgraduate coursework. The first women's higher education institution in the United States, it was founded by women's rights advocate Emma Willard in 1821
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first school in the United States for the instruction of teachers, and he ran the institution, located in Concord, Vermont, until 1830.
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in 1827 the state of Massachusetts started requiring public schooling for the students
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an American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting the speedy modernization of U.S. society; he served in the Massachusetts State legislature (1827–37). In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives
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first state funded school specifically established for public teacher education, what were then referred to as "normal" schools.
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The kindergarten was founded in America by Margarethe Meyer Schurz, wife of the famous German-American statesman Carl Schurz. Mrs. Schurz was a native of Hamburg, Germany, and as a young woman learned the principles of the kindergarten from its creator, Friedrich Froebel [cross references. In the 1850s she came to London, where her sister had founded the first kindergarten there.
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United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds of federal land sales. The Morrill Act of 1862 was enacted during the American Civil War and the Morrill Act of 1890 (the Agricultural College Act of 1890, expanded this model.
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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, was a landmark law case in the us court. It helped state racial segregation laws for public facilities under of "separate but equal" rights.
