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Founded to promote higher standards and put U.S. universities on an equal footing with their European counterparts
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The IQ Test is published in Europe.
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She is the first female superintendent of a large city school system, The Chicago Public Schools. One year later she is elected president of the National Educational Association.
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The first Montessori school in the U.S. opens in Tarrytown, New York.
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They are first used on a large scale in New York City.
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She visits the U.S. and Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel found the Montessori Educational Association at their Washington, DC, home.
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The American Federation of Teachers is founded.
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John Dewey's "Democracy and Education. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education" is published. His views help advance the ideas of the "progressive education movement." An outgrowth of the progressive political movement, progressive education seeks to make schools more effective agents of democracy.
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Lewis Terman translates the Binet IQ test, publishing it as the Stanford-Binet IQ Test.
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All states have laws providing funds for transporting children to school.
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Is founded to reform American education
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Ms. Eliot, with the help from Mrs. Henry Greenleaf Pearson, establishes the Ruggles Street Nursery School in Roxbury, MA, one of the first educational nursery schools in the U.S. It becomes the Eliot-Pearson Children's School and is now affiliated with the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University.
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CEC formed to inform parents, teachers, and administration about education of individuals with disabilities.
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A trial in which teacher is charged with teaching evolution and is convicted, upholding the Butler Act making it illegal to teach evolution.
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The SAT is first administered.
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Jean Piaget's "The Child Conception of the World" published detailing his theory of cognitive development.
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The Great Depression begins with the stock market crash in October. The U.S. economy is devastated. Public education funding suffers greatly, resulting in school closings, teacher layoffs, and lower salaries.
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Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District has its first successful school desegregation case.
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Franklin Roosevelt is elected president and begins bold efforts to initiate his New Deal and spur economic recovery. His wife, Eleanor, becomes a champion of human rights and forever transforms the role of American First Lady.
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Congress authorizes the Works Progress Administration. Its purpose is to put the unemployed to work on public projects, including the construction of hundreds of school buildings.
