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American Education Timeline

By juliaswiss
  • Average school attendance is 82 days a year

    Average school attendance is 82 days a year

    Thomas Jefferson advocates for 3 years free schooling for all children
  • Average school attendance 4 months a year

    Average school attendance 4 months a year

  • Horace Mann appointed Secretary of the Board of Education

    Horace Mann appointed Secretary of the Board of Education

    Lobbies across nation for common education for all.

  • Bible Riots

    People object to religious bias in schools - bias is pro-protestant and anti-catholic/jew, etc.
  • Average attendance 7 months a year

    Average attendance 7 months a year

  • Katherine Beecher founds American Women's Research Association

    Trains women teachers for the frontier and provides a respectable career for women

  • Massacheussettes abolishes school segregation

    Sara Roberts father sues for equality in education

  • Civil War ends

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    African American Literacy from 5% to 70%

  • Period: to

    3 million immigrant children enter U.S. schools

    Schools are overcrowded, unhealthy, cold, and rigid in discipline and instruction
  • "Seperate but Equal" Law

    "Seperate but Equal" Law

    Plessy vs Ferguson case allows for segregation if facilities for white and black are "equal" in quality
  • 50% of children in school for an average 5 years.

    50% of children in school for an average 5 years.

    80% of children prefer to work than go to school anyways. Progressives lobby for more school attendance.
  • 6% of 17 year olds graduate H.S.

    6% of 17 year olds graduate H.S.

  • Gary Plan instituted in IN

    Gary Plan instituted in IN

    Experiment in Progressive Education based on philosophy of John Dewey
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    WWI

    WWI ushers in era of patriotism, christianity, "english only" fervor in schools
  • NY mayor John Mitchel implements Gary Teaching Model in 30 NY city school

    NY mayor John Mitchel implements Gary Teaching Model in 30 NY city school

    Gary model teaches to student's multiple intelligences. Critics say that the model trains kids for factory work.

  • L. Terman publishes Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (IQ test)

    Use of Terman's test in school leads to career tracking for students and replaces "one size fits all" education of previous years
  • Fair Labor Standards Act

    Fair Labor Standards Act

    Compulsory, free education for children till they are 16. No child labor.
  • 45% of 17 year old graduate H.S.

    45% of 17 year old graduate H.S.

  • McCarthy Era and Cold War inspire a return to classic academics

  • 60% students graduate H.S.

    60% students graduate H.S.

  • less than 1% of medical and law degrees received by women

    less than 1% of medical and law degrees received by women

  • average school attendance 9 years

    average school attendance 9 years

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Chief Justice Warren rules that segregation in school is not constitutional. Facilities are not equal.

  • Use of military to forceably desegregate southern schools

    Arkansas Governor uses National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering white school. President Eisenhower uses U.S. troops to make enforce desegregation.
  • National Defense Education Act

    National Defense Education Act

    100 million $ to schools to stimulate science, math and other classic academic subjects so American students can compete with Russian students.
  • 98% of blacks still in black schools

    98% of blacks still in black schools

  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    President Johnson makes discrimination by race or ethnicity illegal for government funded programs

  • Elementary and Secondary Education Act

    provides $4 billion for disadvantaged students
  • nation-wide walkouts by hispanics from schools

    nation-wide walkouts by hispanics from schools

    75% of mexicans drop out of school by 8th grade

  • Students in segregated cities are bussed to different districts to balance numbers

  • 91% African Americans in desegregated schools

    91% African Americans in desegregated schools

  • Title 9 passes

    Title 9 passes

    Makes discrimination based on gender illegal in federally funded programs

  • Supreme Court supports Bi-lingual Education

    Government gives 68 million for programs

  • Disabled Children included in Schools

  • average school attendance 12.5 years

    average school attendance 12.5 years

  • 30% of medical or law degree received by women

    30% of medical or law degree received by women

  • 85% of students graduate H.S.

    85% of students graduate H.S.

  • Regan Declares crisis in education

    Regan Declares crisis in education

  • 500 million spent on standard testing

    500 million spent on standard testing

  • Choice allowed in NYC choose school

  • Voucher legislation passes in WI

  • Maryland school board kills school privitization

    But schools take the money from the government and begin subcontracting for their own needs, leading to more efficient money management.
  • Government gives 80 million to build new Charter schools

    Government gives 80 million to build new Charter schools

  • Homeschool legal in all 50 states