-
Harvard college has its beginnings in a seminary.
-
Quacker school for black students is established in Philadelphia.
-
Boston's English High School opens with 102 students. The school is the first tuition free public high school.
-
Congress passes the Smith-Hughes acts. Allowing funds for education below the college level.
-
Classrooms being incorporating radios into penmanship accounting, history and arithmetic lessons.
-
Overhead projectors came into use.
-
A sex education program is introduced citywide in Chicago.
-
52% of schools are using silent films.
-
First TV appears in a classroom
-
The US congress approves the national school lunch act.
-
US supreme court rules schools segregated by race are unequal and therefore unconstitutional.
-
The teacher of deaf act is enacted
-
The school breakfast program pilot is launched.
-
Texas instruments develops the handheld instruments.
-
Expansion of the Emergency School aid act provides federal funding for the planning and implementation of magnet schools.
-
US department of education is established under the department of Education Organization Act
-
US spending on education reaches 151.5 billion
-
Touch typing software is introduced.
-
Laptops are introduced and are eventually utilized as touching tools.
-
CD-Roms become a predominant form of storage.
-
SMART boards are introduced in schools
-
Education Act of 1986 is expanded to mandate biological education about HIV, AIDS, and sexually transmitted diseases in public schools.
-
Proposition 187 passes California making it illegal for children of undocumented immigrants to attend school.
-
Children of baby boomers swell school enrollments to a record 51.7 million students.
-
1.5 Million Ipads are used in school.
