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Chapter 7 Summary Choice Board

By KalebKempes

  • James Pillans invents the blackboard

  • First Public High School opens in US

  • A law passes in Massachusetts that requires towns of than 500 to have a public school

  • First School for Blind opens in the US

  • Braille code is published by Louis Braille

  • African Institute opens in Pennsylvania

    The oldest institution of higher learning for African-Americans

  • Oberlin College accepts first group of women

    Becomes first coeducational college in the US

  • First Teacher Training Program opens

  • Boston Library opens to public

    Becomes first free library

  • U.S. Supreme Court requires California extend education to immigrants

  • The first SAT is administered

  • First TVs start appearing in classrooms

  • National Association for Gifted opens

  • Supreme Court strikes down on segregated schools

  • Twelve A-A students successfully integrate Clinton High School in Tennessee

  • The ACT is first administered

  • Whiteboards are first introduced to classrooms

  • The Floppy Disk becomes relevant

  • Micael Hart invents the e-Book

  • Texas Instruments introduces first electronic hand-held calculators

  • Title IX becomes law

  • Public Law 93-112

    Prohibits discrimination against students with disabilities

  • IBM introduces first personal computer

  • US Supreme Court rules books cannot be taken from a school library if deemed offensive by adminstrators

  • The internet is introduced

  • Emergency Immigrant Education Act is enacted

  • Laptops are introduced into the classroom

  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) becomes law

  • The smartboard is introduced by SMART Technologies

  • CompuHigh Whitmore is founded.

    Claims to be first online high school.

  • Whiteboards are introduced into the American classroom

  • Georgia becomes first state to offer universal preschool

  • Congress approves No Child Left Behind Act

  • National Education Technology Plan (NTEP) calls for a "revolutionary transformation rather than evolutionary"

    pg. 188

  • iPads are being utilized in schools

  • Sources

    https://eds-resources.com/educationhistorytimeline.html#1700
    https://elearninginfographics.com/timeline-of-educational-technology-in-schools-infographic/#:~:text=1900%20-%201920%20-%20Age%20of%20the%20One-room,US%20military%20training%20purposes%20quickly%20spread%20to%20schools