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The first public school to open in Boston, Massachusetts. Known as the Boston Latin School. This school was a secondary school for boys only.
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The first United States college to accept both men and women was Oberlin College. This college is located in Oberlin, Ohio.
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Margarethe Schurz founded the first kindergarten in Watertown, Wisconsin. Some states have children starting Kindergarten between ages 5 through 8.
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The Pledge of Allegiance began to be recited in classrooms. The first time the pledge was recited was in a public school on Columbus Day.
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Taking attendance became mandatory at this time in the classrooms. According to the rules of American Bar Association. This is called compulsory attendance laws.This law is crafted by each state to require school attendance for children of certain ages.
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Frank W. Cyr lead a conference meeting on student transportation. A $5,000 grant from Rockefeller Foundation helped start this program. Frank was later known as the Father of the Yellow School Bus.
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The National School Lunch Program provides meals for public, nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. This program provides children with free or reduced meals.
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The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. In 1954 segregated schools became illegal.
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The National Defense Education Act (NDEA) was passed to improve math, science, and foreign languages in schools.This also provided funding for schools in America and promote postsecondary education.
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SMART Technologies created the first interactive whiteboard that could connect to a computer. Along with the whiteboards, dry-erase boards were created to eliminate the chalk dust from the chalk boards.
