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Harvard
Harvard was established in 1636, and started the beginning of higher education in America. Also began very religious based but soon became more diverse. -
Old Deluder Satan Act
A 1647 law that required colonial towns of at least fifty households to provide education for youth. This law ensured that a greater number of kids were receiving some kind of education. -
Common Elementary Schools
Horace Mann established the common elementary school. This begins the movement of formalizing education, as well as making it the same throughout all areas. Is a leading action torwards today’s elementary education process. -
Public Schools
Public school systems founded from elementary education to grad school. All states have officially formalized education from beginning to end, creating a surge in teaching positions as well as intelligence throughout America. Also takes away from all the privatization. -
Secondary Schools.
The creation of these intermediate and secondary schools not only help with the public school system, but also help to continue basic education for children. -
Graduation Required
Normal schools start requiring high school graduation for entrance. Causes the teaching profession to become more respected and realistic. When the states backing them, the public school system really starts to take off. -
Meyer v. Nebraska
The Supreme Court rules in Meyer v. Nebraska that banning foreign-language instruction is unconstitutional. This allowed students to begin learning another language that could possibly help them acquire jobs. -
Oregon Law
The U.S. Supreme Court rules unconstitutional an Oregon law requiring all children to attend public schools. This allowed for parents to put their children either in private schools where a better education was sometimes found, or allowed them to pull their children out of school and homeschool them. -
Butler Act
The Butler Act prevents teachers in Tennessee to teach the biblical account of man's origin. This changed the curriculum for many schools and teachers, and became a problem for those who disagreed with the act. -
Educational Equality League
African Americans in Philadelphia found the Educational Equality League to seek desegregation of public schools, the hiring of African American teachers, and the appointment of an African American to the school board. This was a big step for African Americans in Philadelphia. -
Murray v. Maryland
On March 16, the U.S. Supreme Court in Murray v. Maryland orders the University of Maryland Law School either to admit an African American student or to create a segregated law school for him alone. The student was admitted to the law school, which again, was a big step for African Americans. -
Analysis of Teaching
The focus of school analysis started shifting from what should occur in the classroom to what was actually going on. This change lead to the creation of observational scales for assessment, which lead to greater changes in the educational process itself. -
State Colleges
Around 1950, many schools began changing from "state teacher colleges" to "state colleges." The change in name was accompanied by a wider scope of programs, not just education, and the development into multipurpose institutions. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The decision of this court case states that separate schools are not equal. This result led to a greater development in school integration and size. African Americans and other racial groups started receiving the same, equal education as white people. -
Congress
Congress passed, for the first time ever in the 20th century, and aid-to-education bill which helped jump-start many schools. -
Civil Rights
Throughout the entire span of the 1960s, more African American children and students of different ethnicities were being allowed entry into primarily white schools, which showed a development of both education and society. -
Title I
Through Title I, nine million children who lived in low-income households received aid for education. This tried to bring an equal amount of educational opportunity to even the poorest of Americans.
