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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi opens what is considered to be the first preschool.
After working as a teacher, Johann makes a discovery about how preschool aged children learn. He states that they learn best "through activity and through things." He takes this knowledge to teach a group of preschool aged kids to read and write in eight months. -
Dr. Maria Montessori opens the Casa dei Bambini
Dr. Montessori opens low-income school and implements her own learning method called the Montessori method. The method centers around peer learning, work time, and guided choice of work activity. The method is very popular in preschool programs. -
National Association for Nursery Education or NANE is created.
NANE is now known as the National Association for the Education of Young Children or NAEYC. The group has focused on improving early childhood education practices by providing resources and setting standards. The NAEYC is also the platform that the code of ethical conduct has come from. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This event is an educational court case about segregation in schools. In a unanimous decision, it was ruled that segregation is unequal. Following the first verdict, desegregation was ordered in 1955, which came to be called Brown II. -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or IDEA was signed into law by President Gerald Ford. This law allowed 1.8 million children with disabilities to attend school when they couldn't before. The other students who were not excluded were separated into classrooms away from the rest of the student body. The door for this act was opened by the Brown v. Board of Education court case. -
No Child Left Behind
No child left behind is an act that raised standards of education and established measurable goals.Mostly the act enforces assessments in order to monitor childhood learning. -
Teaching Child Care Providers to Reduce the Risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
Infants from 1 to 12 months die suddenly in their sleep. The goal of this event is to begin to reduce the number of SIDS deaths in childcare. -
President Obama Signs Education Law, Leaving 'No Child' Behind
President Obama signs in the replacement to No Child Left Behind called Every Child Succeeds Act. One of its main parts is the reduction of high stakes testing and providing acess to high qualiyy preschool.
