digital timeline

By lawills
  • 1088

    the first ever known college

    the first ever known college was called the university of bologna
  • The first ever college
    1088

    The first ever college

    the first college ever known was the University of Bologna
  • The first school

    The first school

    the first ever known school was located in Boston
  • the first US college

    the first US college

    The first US college was Harvard University
  • public funding for schools

    Northeastern communities had already established publicly funded or free schools by the late 1780s
  • The first secondary school

    the first secondary school was created shortly after the first American civil war
  • schooling for children became mandatory

    Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to enact a compulsory education law in 1852
  • The first only African American school

    this school was created in Atlanta it was known as clark college
  • The first only African American school

    this school was known as clark university
  • most places had compulsory schools

  • John dewey

    created a more progressive way to educate children
  • Desegregation of schools

    No more black only schools or only all white
  • no child left behind

  • sources

    T,laura (October 21, 2021). 10 of the oldest universities in the world https://www.topuniversities.com/blog/10-oldest-universities-world Georgetown library (august 26,2021) brief history of civil rights in the us