Chapter 7

By hdewitt

  • Harvard College - 1st university

  • Massachusetts General Court passed the first education law

    required parents to make sure that their children could read and understand things like religion and laws

  • First academy for girls was established

  • Chalkboards installed in classrooms

  • First public high school established

  • Emma Willard established 1st school for women for higher education

  • First U.S. English-language kindergarten

  • First Morrill Act established land-grant institutions

  • The Department of Education established

  • Public schools present in every state

  • Economic depression closed many schools

  • Kalamazoo case (school districts could tax public to support schools)

  • Second Morrill Act called for nondiscrimination in college admissions

  • Plessy v. Ferguson (established separate schools for white and blacks)

  • California/Ohio; middle school established for grades 7, 8, 9

  • Edison said, "Books will obsolete in the schools. Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye. It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed in ten years."

  • Progressive Education Association established to reform education

  • First SAT was administered

  • Overhead projector introduced

  • GI Bill funds higher education for veterans

  • Brown vs. Board of Education - dealt with segregation in schools

  • "Little Rock Nine" tried to enroll at a school in Little Rock, Arkansas

  • Photo copier introduced

  • The Association for Children with Learning Disabilities formed

  • Elementary and Secondary Education Act

  • Introduction of calculator and computers allowed technology to make its way into classrooms

  • Title IX

  • Computer-aided common in K-12 and higher education

  • First portable computer introduced

  • All states allowed for homeschooling

  • "A Nation at Risk" report called for all high school graduates to be able to both understand and use computers.

  • Multiple computers could be found in classrooms

  • Microsoft Office released

  • National Education Goals announced by President Bush

  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin starts voucher program that helped low-income children attend a private school

  • Founding of Jones International University ("exist entirely online")

  • No Child Left Behind Act created by President Bush

  • Race To the Top - announced by President Obama

    another grant in a series of reforms that were trying to boost teaching and learning

  • Tablet sales exploded by 340% for K-12 children

  • U.S. Census Bureau reported differences for access and use of technology among different races

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