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"First draft" of the Consitution. It was disputed for years before being ratified in 1781. It was quickly replaced by the Constitution in 1788.
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Purpose was to raise money through selling uncharted land. It also created funds for public schools under section 16 in townships' charters.
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Mr. George Baron, an instructor at West Point Military Academy, is considered to be the first American instructor to incorporate the use of a large black chalk board into the presentation of his math lessons in 1801. However, it's probable that a few other schools had access to it, also. (taken from http://www.ergoindemand.com/about_chalkboards.htm)
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Act to further marginalize indigenous people in the US. The first boarding school for indigenous people opens in Carlisle, PA by Capt. Pratt.
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First school for children with visual impairments
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Massachusetss passed the first laws. Other states followed and by 1918 everyone has them.
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without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactic, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Act) -
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United States federal law proposed by Republican Senator Charles Sumner and Republican Congressman Benjamin F. Butler in 1870. The Act guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in "public accommodations" (i.e. inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement). (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1875)
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First medical college for African Americans
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Students learn both academics and trades
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Plessy v. Ferguson ruling. Separate, but equal. Socrates:
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Report that said US education was failing
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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. He wrote the first WWW client (a browser-editor running under NeXTStep) and the first WWW server along with most of the communications software, defining URLs, HTTP and HTML.
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Landmark case in Michigan that shoots down the point system UM uses in its undergrad admissions Socrates:
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"In June 2004, Mayor Richard Daley launched Renaissance 2010, a bold initiative whose goal is to increase the number of high quality educational options in communities across Chicago by 2010. New schools are created through a competitive, community-based selection process which establishes a set of high standards to which every new school will be held accountable. In 2005, Chicago Public Schools opened the first "cohort" of Renaissance 2010 schools." (taken from http://www.ren2010.cps.k12.il.us/
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