education in the classroom

  • 1600s to 1700s

    in the south kids were homeschooled and there were no public schools.
  • 1620

    maryland university in the south was created for catholic students
  • 1635

    the first public school started in the 13 colonies.
  • 1636

    Harvard University was established
  • Period: to

    1640 to 1830

    not many schools were opened during this time because they did not see education as an importance.
  • 1701

    Yale College was established
  • 1749

    Columbia University was established by Benjermin Franklin.
  • 1800s

    common one room school rooms
  • 1800s

    most educated teachers did not want to educate the younger kids
  • 1840

    3.68 million kids were in a 55% attendance rating at school in america.
  • 1848

    many German Catholics moved to America and this made them set up German speaking schools.
  • 1865

    90,000 black students were enroled in schools for blacks.
  • 1890s

    catholics had their own elementary schools and nuns were their teachers.
  • 1900

    31 states had schools for kids from age 8 to 14
  • 1930s

    people started wanting their kids to reach their full potential so they started more schools and movements to open more schools.
  • 1960s

    we had segregated schools
  • 1970s

    segregation in schools was eliminated
  • 1981

    every state required kids to finish elementary school.
  • 2001

    no child left behind was established.
  • 2012

    45 schools no longer required cursive writing.