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  • Roots of the American Education System were established

  • The Boston Latin Grammar High School

    This was the first high school created.

  • Old Deluder Satan Act

    This law was designed to produce citizens who understood the Bible. It allowed teachers to be hired.

  • Academy of Philadelphia

    A secondary school that focused on practical needs of colonial America.

  • Land Ordinance

    This reserved land for public schools

  • U.S. Constitution helped shape education system because it removed religion and focused more on education

  • Common School Movement

    Made education available to all children in the U.S.

  • English High School

    This high school met the needs of boys who were not planning to go to college.

  • Over a quarter million students were now enrolled in schools

  • National Education Association Act (NEA)

  • Separate but Equal!

  • Junior High has now been set up in over 800 school systems

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    Projectors and Filmstrips are now integrated into schools

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    Overhead Projectors are now integrated into schools

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    Programmed and computer based instruction, and educational television and VCRs are now integrated into schools

  • Sputnik Satellite

    This began encouraging the education of science and math.

  • Handheld calculators are now integrated into schools

  • No Child Left Behind Act

    All students should acquire basic skills with primary emphasis on reading and math

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