1851-1900

  • 1852 Massachusetts passes Firts Compuslory Attendance Law

    Mann, H. (1867). Annual reports on education. Boston: Lee and Shepard.
  • Founding of the National Education association

    Urban, W. J., Wagoner, J. L. (2014). American education: A history (5th ed.). Routledge.
    National Education Association. (n.d.). History. https://www.nea.org/about-nea/our-history
  • Morrill Land-Grant Act: Created institutions like Iowa State University, Texas A&M, and others. democratized higher institutions

    Geiger, R. L. (2015). The history of American higher education: Learning and culture from the founding to World War II. Princeton University Press.
  • Freedman's Bureau was established (suported creation of schools of formly enslaved people)

    Anderson, J. D. (1988). The education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Establishment of the Massachusetts Board of Education

    Tucker, M. (2014). American education: A history. Routledge.
  • The Cival Rights Act

    Foner, E. (1988). Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863–1877. Harper Row.
  • John Dewey's Birth

    Dewey, J. (1916). Democracy and education: An introduction to the philosophy of education. Macmillan.
  • The Land-Grant College Act (Morrill Act)

    Lubienski, C., Lubienski, S. (2006). Charter, Private, Public Schools and Academic Achievement: New Evidence from NAEP Mathematics Data. National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education.
  • The Columbian Exposition and the "Chicago School" of Education

    Kliebard, H. M. (2004). The struggle for the American curriculum, 1893-1958. Routledge.
  • 1896 – Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Decision

    U.S. Supreme Court. (1896). Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537.