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Congress makes it illegal for Native Americans to be taught in their native languages. Native children as young as four years old are taken from their parents and sent to Bureau of Indina Affairs off-reservation boarding schools, whose goal, as one BIA official put it, is to "kill the Indian to save the man."
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The Department of Education is created in order to help states establish effective school systems.
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Christopher Sholes invents the "modern" typewriter. Known as the Sholes Glidden, it is first manufactured by E. Remington & Sons in 1873
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Plessy v. Ferguson decision. The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the state of Louisiana has the right to require "separate but equal" railroad cars for Blacks and Whites.The decision means that the federal government offically recognizes segegation as lega. One result is that southern states pass laws requiring racial segregation in public schools
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The U.S. Supreme Court requires California to extend public education to the children of Chinese immigrants.
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Alfred Binet's article, "New Methods for the Diagnosis of the Intellectual Level of Subnormals," is published in France. It describes his work with Theodore Simon in the development of a measurement instrument that would identify students with mental retardation. The Binet-Simon Scale, as it is called, is an effective means of measuring intelligence.
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The first Montessori school in the U.S. opens in Tarrytown, New York. Two years later (1913), Maria Montessori visits the U.S., and Alexander Grahm Bell and his wife, Mabel, found the Montessori Educational association at their Washinton DC home.
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Louis M. Terman and his team of Stanford University graduate students complete an American verstion of the Stanford-Binet Scale. The Stanford-Binet Scale is amon the most popular individual intelligence test today.
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John Dewey's Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education is published. Dewey's biews help advance the ideas of the "progressive education movement." An outgrowth of the progressive political movement, progressive education seeks to make schools more effective agents of democracy.
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The Progressive Education Association is founded with the goal of reforming American education
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All states have laws providing funds for transporting children to school.
