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this is founded to promote higher education standards to help compete with euopran counterparts
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first public community college opens in Joliet Illinois
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an African American educator, founds the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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she becomes superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools, she is aslo the first female superintendent of a large city school system.
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junior highs are created to increase high school graduation rates
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One year later after becoming superintendent she is elected president of the National Education Association.
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the IQ is born when Louis M. Terman and his team of Stanford University graduate students complete an American version of the Binet-Simon Scale this scale is then known as the IQ test
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The Scholastic Aptitude Test also known as the SAT is first administered
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The ACT Test is first administered.
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Ladislas Biro and his brother Georg Biro patent the ballpoint pen
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Jean Piaget's book, The Science of Education, is published. His Learning Cycle model helps to popularize discovery-based teaching approaches.
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Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first independent version of Windows, is released, setting the stage for subsequent versions that make MS-DOS obsolete.
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The smart board , also known as the interactive white board, is introduced by SMART Technologies.
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the Higher Education Act is amended and reauthorized requiring institutions and states to produce "report cards" about teacher education