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In Boston Massachusetts, the first school In America was established, The Boston Latin School. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/first-public-school-america/ -
Common schools were funded by local property taxes and charged no tuition. Beginning in the 1820's, Horace Mann, convinced a nation to create a system of common schools - good schools were good business and the future of the economy and the democracy depended upon providing a "common" education to all children, no matter where they were born. Common Schools Movement (iastate.edu) -
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka -
Provided funding to United States education institutions at all levels. Signed by President Dwight Eisenhower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Education_Act -
Head Start is a federal program that provides comprehensive services to low-income children and their families to promote school readiness.
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Title IX is the most commonly used name for the federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives funding from the federal government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX -
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with a Free Appropriate Public Education. https://sites.ed.gov/idea/ -
Standards-based reform first gained momentum in 1983, during the Reagan era, with the federal educational goals and objectives highlighted in "Nation at Risk." https://web.stanford.edu/~hakuta/www/archives/syllabi/CalTex_SBR/historysbr.html#:~:text=Standards-based%20reform%20first%20gained%20momentum%20in%201983%2C%20during,eras%2C%20and%20is%20currently%20known%20as%20%22Goals%202000.%22 -
The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 was a law pertaining to the War on Drugs passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Drug_Abuse_Act_of_1986#Spending -
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. It supported standard based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act
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