Education In America

  • 3200 BCE

    Writing

    invented near Mesopotamia
  • 200

    Woodblock Printing

  • 1088

    Establishing Universities

  • 1095

    Homework

  • First Public School in the United States

  • Printing Press

  • First Female Teacher

  • National Teachers Association is Founded in America

    first had 2.5 million members
  • Forced Schooling in America

  • Invention of Filmstrip Projector

    (Ryan, Cooper, Bolick, 2014, pg186)
  • Reduced/ Free lunches

  • Graphing Calculator

    (Ryan, Cooper, Bolick, 2014, pg 193)
  • Overhead Projector

    (Ryan, Cooper, Bolick, 2014, pg 186)
  • Federal Funding in America

  • Standardized Testing

    popular for assessing learning
  • First email

    In Cambridge, Massachusetts
    (Ryan, Cooper, Bolick, 2014, pg 188)
  • Digital Imagery

    (Ryan, Cooper, Bolick, 2014, pg199)
  • Spreadsheets

    (Ryan, Cooper, Bolick, 2014, pg 200)
  • Podcasts/ Audioblogging

    (Ryan, Cooper, Bolick, 2014, pg 192)
  • Search Engines

    (Ryan, Cooper, Bolick, 2014, pg 192)
  • Webquests

    (Ryan, Cooper, Bolick, 2014, pg 201)
  • Social Media

    (Ryan, Cooper, Bolick, 2014, pg 189)
  • Blogs

    (Ryan, Cooper, Bolick, 2014, pg 192)