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This law was passed in Massachusetts in 1647. It declared that if a town had at least 50 families they had to hire a teacher to teach the children in the town how to read and write.
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Benjamin Franklin helped estrablish the first 'English Academy' that had a curriculum of history, geography, algebra, etc. The goal of the school was to provide a more modern curriculum for students while still teaching them the classics.
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This school that opened in 1787 was the first academy for girls in America. Before this there were schools for boys, but education for girls was not taken as seriously.
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This was the first school that was opened for the education of African Americans. This is an extremely important part in the history of education because up until now black children were not able to learn to the same degree as white children, if they were permitted to learn at all.
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A group of teachers in Philladelphia founded the National Teacher's Association in 1857. Their purpose was to work together to continue to better public education for children.
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This was a huge turning point in our history. It put an end to segregation of white and black children in schools. The case stated that african american children were not getting as good an education in segregated classrooms as they would in integrated classes.
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The EOA was designed to help people from a lower economic class. It was implemented to promote their health, education and welfare (Morrison 84).
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This shooting is an important part of history to me because I feel that up until this point schools were seen as "safe". You didn't have to worry when you went to school. When this happened, however, it changed all of that.
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The No Child Left Behind Act focuses on standardized testing, and provides funding for schools whose children achieve high test scores. Continues the standards that were first put in place by the National Defense Education Act (Morrison 84).