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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.
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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.