The Association of American Universities is founded to promote higher standards and put U.S. universities on an equal footing with their European counterparts.
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Education
A youth program began in Ohio
Mary McLeod Bethune,an African American educator, founds the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is founded
The Smith-Hughes Act passes, providing federal funding for agricultural and vocational education
Tennessee vs. John Scopes ("the Monkey Trial") captures national attention as John Scopes, a high school biology teacher, is charged with the heinous crime of teaching evolution
the National School Lunch Act.
Brown v. Board. of Education of Topeka, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," thus overturning its previous ruling in the 1896
The ACT Test is first administered.
-First grader Ruby Bridges is the first African American to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Schools close as the nation mourns its loss. Lyndon Johnson becomes president
Samuel A. Kirk uses the term "learning disability"
