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Boston Latin School would be the first "free" school in the United States, located in Boston, Massachusetts
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Harvard College was established in Newtowne, Massachusetts.
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Thomas Jefferson proposed two track education
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James Pillans invents the blackboard
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First government owned and operated school opened in Boston, named Boston English High School
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Catharine Beecher founds Hartford Female Seminary, one of the first major institutions allowing females to get an education.
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University made for African Americans
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This became what we know as an IQ test
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This was the first junior high school in the U.S.
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Classrooms begin incorporating the radio in their lessons
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The first Scholastic Aptitude Test (S.A.T) was administered in this year
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Overhead projectors which were primarily used in the military are introduced into schools
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The first tv appears in a classroom in LA
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Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public schools.
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A group of nine African American students tried to enroll at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas but were met with an angry white mob
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It was created to strengthen the education system through funds
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The Association for Children with Learning Disabilities was formed
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Created to help preschool children who came from low income families
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Texas Instruments develops the handheld calculator
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This prohibited discrimination based on sex in all aspects of education
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Automatically graded multiple choice examples
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This was the day that the Department of Education was founded
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Escalante first gained media attention when 18 of his students passed the Advanced Placement Calculus exam. Since he taught in a rural area, many thought that the students had cheated. Twelve retook the test and had their scores reinstated
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This report called for all high school graduates to be able to understand and use computers
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This told teachers what students should know in their grade
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The Apple Macintosh computer is developed. The ration of computers to students in US schools is 1 - 92
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laptops are developed and are eventually utilized as teaching tools
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CD-ROM disks became the new kind of storage
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According to the National Center for Education Statistics about 35% of American public schools had Internet access
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SMART boards introduced in schools
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Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students and one teacher.
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Created yearly assessment of students
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1 computer for every 5.3 students in US schools
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Shooting that took the lives of 20 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary. It was the second deadliest shooting by a single person in US history
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1.5 million iPads provided by schools
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Black students had only a 69% graduation rate and Hispanic students had a 73% rate, while Asian students had a 88% graduation rate and Caucasian students had an 86% rate.
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90% of students under the age of 18 have access to mobile technology
