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First junior high school in Berkeley, California
the first junior high school was in California. junior high is the same as middle school -
Smith-Hughes Act (fund vocational classes)
the US congress that helped agriculture to train people who want to work on farms or anything of that nature, and provides federal funds to this -
Progressive education programs
an act that tried to fight for social class separation of education -
New Deal education programs
series of social liberal programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
G.I. Bill of Rights
U.S. legislation passed in 1944 that provided benefits to World War II veterans. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in schools
landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Sputnik leads to increased federal education funds
movement for science education -
National Defense Education Act (NDEA) funds science, math, and foreign language programs
an act to defend math and other academic education -
Job Corps and Head Start are funded
when head start was federally funded -
Elementary and Secondary Act (ESEA)
passed as a part of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty" and has been the most far-reaching federal legislation affecting education ever passed by the United States Congress. The act was an extensive statute that funded primary and secondary education. -
Bilingual Education Act
Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1968, was the first piece of United States federal legislation that recognized the needs of Limited English Speaking Ability (LESA) students -
Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in schools
law that says no sex can be left out of education -
Public Law 94-142, Education for All Handicapped Children Act (renamed the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act), is passed
law that says handicap deserve education and will be give education as well as other children -
Cabinet-level Department of Education is established
department of education ordered a cabinet level of education -
No Child Left Behind Act calls for state standards and annual testing (President George Bush)
law that says no child shall be left behind in the grade they didn't do goo don, that they should move get help -
Race to the Top (President Barack Obama)
presidential race of 2009
