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The age of agriculture began and people started to move away from wandering and begin to settle down into small villages and develop culture. Animals were domesticated and cattle were herded.
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Information or Knowledge age-driven by technology
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Steam Locomotive
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250,00 US Children under the age of 15 did not attend school. These children worked in factories and mines.
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Atlanta School system turns away 400 students because they do not have enough space.
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Period of Great change
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United States Steel
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First public college
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From 1905 to 1909 Jane Adams, leader of the Settlement House movement, served as a member of the Chicago Board of Education. She fought to change curriculum in public schools.
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Binet-Simmons Scale
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Cellophane
Cellophane invented by Jacques Brandenberger -
Corporate income tax act
Corporate Income tax Act-Imposed an excise tax on corporations -
MontessoriSchool
First Montessori School opens in the US. Children teach themselves- Everything Montessori schools teach was based on this observation -
Motorized Movie Cameras
Motorized movie cameras invented that replaced hand cranked cameras. -
Psychology of Learning
Edward Lee Thorndike published a book” The Psychology of Learning”, based on his theory that human learning involves habit formation, or connections between stimuli and response. -
Assembly line
Ford develops first moving assembly line -
FEDERAL RESERVE WAS FORMED
Federal Reserve Act was signed to create federal reserve banks -
WW! begins
WW! Begins -
Carrier Engineering
Carrier engineering is founded beginning the commercialization of air conditioning -
Pop up Toaster
Charles Strite invented the first pop-up toaster in 1919 -
Right to vote
With the passing of the 19th amendment women are given the right to vote -
Child labor debate
Child labor debate of 1920 -
Lie Detector
First lie detector invented in 1921 -
John Harwood invented the self-winding watch
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Gastalt Theory
Gestalt Theory introduced -
Piaget
Jean Piaget’s “ The Childs Conception of the World” is published- His theory of cognitive development influences American education. -
Stockmarket crash
New York Stock exchange and the market crashStock market crash said to have occurred on Tuesday, October 24 and Thursday, October 26. -
Crash of 1929
The great crash of 1929 -
working women
24% of women in the country were employed -
Unemployment High
Following the crash of the stock market unemployment reached 24.9% -
Semi Joseph Begun built the worlds first tape recorder used for broadcasting.
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United auto workers
United auto workers stage their first sit down strike -
First ball point pen
First ball point pen with pressurized ink cartridge invented -
First concept car
Harley Earl created the Buick-Y-Job-considered to be the first concept car -
Hitler invades Poland
Hitler invades Poland -
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The Wechsler- Intelligence Scale is developed by David Wechsler. This is still used in schools today to help identify students needing special education. -
President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt pressured to ban military segregation -
John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer at Iowa State University.
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Kaiser Shipyards
Kaiser's shipyards surpass all expectations of production -
Z3
Konrad Zuse completed the Z3- the worlds first electronic, fully programable digital computer -
Naturalism
Between 1943 and 1944 nearly 1 million people were naturalized. -
Hiroshima bombed
Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima -
Churchills Iron Curtain speech
Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech sparks beginning of cold war -
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This wave is driven by information technology.
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Population Explosion
In 1954 the country experienced the most births than any previous year -
Fads
Newest trends included Rock-n-Roll, silly putty and the Hula Hoop -
Black Box
David Warren invents the first black box flight recorder -
Theory on operant behavior
Skinner’s book” Science and Human Behavior” is published which explains his theory on operant behavior. -
Racial segregation
Brown vs Board of Education-begins unraveling US racial segregation -
1956 Federal Aid Highway Act
Eisenhower creates the interstates by signing the Federal Aid Highway Act -
Sputnik 1
Russia launches Sputnik-1 -
FIRST CREDIT CARD
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Internal pacemaker was invented by Wilson Greatbatch
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Birth Control
Birth control/The Pill was made available -
Creation of malls
Creation of Malls – Department stores were testing night time shopping and starting to end the never open on Sunday policy -
Proximal development
- Lev Vytosky’s ideas are brought to the US- He is best known for his ideas on “ zone of proximal development" -
Walmart
First Walmart opens -
Equal Pay
Equal Pay for equal work -
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act of 1964 -
Hand calculator
First hand calculator was invented in 1966 by a team at Texas Instruments -
cognitive learniing theories
Jerome Brunner’s theories help popularize the cognitive learning theories -
RAMRobert Dennard invented RAM( Random Access Memory)
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Woodstock
Hippies,drugs and rock-n-roll converge on the Woodstock festival -
1970 prices
Cost of US postage stamp was .06- cost of a gallon of gas .36- and the President was Richard Nixon -
Floppy Disc
In 1971 IBM introduced the first memory disc -
Rehabilitation Act
Rehabilitation Act becomes law and guarantees children with disabilities access to public schools -
[First Digital Camera](Harles Seeberger Escalator Inventors)
Steve Sasson of Kodak created the first digital camera -
WordStar released
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was elected president. -
Madeline Hunter
Madeline Hunter’s direct instruction teaching model is widely used. -
Recession
Unemployment continued in the face of recession. By the end of the year nearly 12 million persons were jobless. -
At risk schools
1983- A report on schools deems we are a nation at risk and wants changes in all public schools. -
AT&T Breakup
AT&T is dismantled -
Apple
First Apple-Macintosh computer created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak -
Microsoft windows
First version of Microsoft windows released -
Gulf War
Gulf war begins. Massive air attacks on targets in Iraq, Kuwait -
Netscape
Netscape goes public -
Java
James Gossling and the Green team created Java -
OJ
The country watched the saga of a football hero -
Web TV invented
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Multiculturalism
James Banks book on multiculturalism changes thinking about multicultural education. -
Madeline Albright
Madeline Albright was sworn in as the first female secretary of state on January 23, 1997 -
Teacher report cards
Higher education act requires teacher report cards -
Columbine
Mass killing at Columbine High School -
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Fourth wave to include major breakthroughs in biotechnology and nano technology.
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911
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iPod
First iPod released -
NCLB
NCLB is signed -
YouTube
YouTube invented -
Oil Prices
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Obama
Obama elected first African American presidenthttp://noosphere.princeton.edu/obama.elected.html