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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson creates an educational system for "laboring and the learning". Allow students of the laboring class to advance. -
Noah Webster
Noah Webster created a new English text book called A Grammatical Institute of the English Language with three volumes consisting of a spelling book, a grammar book, and a reader. It has been renamed the American Spelling Book and often called the Blue-Backed Speller. -
Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance is enacted by Congress which provides a plan for western expansion and bans slavery in new states. Act 3 of the document says that "schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." Every township of a new state is reserved for the support of education. -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is passed by the first congress that says education becomes a function of the state rather than the federal government. -
Blackboard
James Pillans invents the blackboard. The idea of a blackboard got popular among the teachers because it saved time, enhanced understanding, and helped a larger group of students at the same time. -
New York Public Schools
New York Public School Society provides education for the poor children. Schools run by the teacher teaching the older students then the older students pass down the information to the younger students. These schools emphasize discipline and obedience because factory owners want that in their workers. -
Free Public Schools
A petition is presented to the Boston Town calls for establishing a system of free public primary schools. The support comes from local merchants, businessmen, and wealthier artisans. Many oppose because they don't want to pay the taxes. -
Deaf and Dumb School
The Connecticut Asylum at Hartford for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons opens and is the first permanent school for the deaf in the U.S. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the school. -
First Public High School
Boston English High School was the first public high school in the U.S. to open. It was originally called the English Classical School, but renamed to the English High School during its first relocation. -
Free Public High School
The state of Massachusetts passes a low requiring towns of more than 500 families to have a public high school open to all students for free. -
Perkins School for the Blind
The first school in the U.S for children with visual disabilities opens in Massachusetts called The New England Asylum for the Blind, but now called the Perkins School for the Blind.
