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Four college students were killed at an Anti-War protest at Kent State.
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Supreme Court case stating that all mentaly challenged children had the right to a free education.
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Approach to meeting the unique needs of Native Americans.
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Title IX is passed making it illegal to discriminate against sex in all areas of education.
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Requires accomidations for students with diabilities.
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Judge Arthur Garrity orders the busing of African American students to predomantly white schools in Boston, MA.
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National Association for Bilingual Education is founded.
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Provided a free, appropriate and well suited education for students with special needs.
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Apple puts out one of the first succesful personal computers the Apple II.
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IBM puts out it's version of the personal computer. The operating system was MS-DOS
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Report done by the National Commision on the Exellence in Education, "A Nation At Risk", calls for wide spread reform of the education system.
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Supreme Court case ruling that public prayer in school is un-constatutional.
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Supreme Court case ruling that Creationism could not be taught in classrooms.
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Tim Berners, "Inventor of the Internet", creates a program that allows one computer to communicate with another.