Important Events During The History of Education By facebooker_1618233688328032 Sep 8, 1636 Harvard is Founded https://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history 1870 Native Americans Put Into Boarding Schools May 18, 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldd0PLPG3E0 1910 Secondary School Movement https://scholar.harvard.edu/lkatz/filter_by/high-school-movement 1920 Reform During the Progressive Era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Q4zPR4G7M Feb 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX9Dmo24_cc 1957 Cold War/ Space Race https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/10/how-sputnik-changed-u-s-education/ Oct 17, 1979 Department of Education is Signed into Law https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/focus/what.html 1990 The Standards Movement https://www.coursera.org/lecture/edref/episode-8-3-ramping-up-reform-the-rise-of-standards-and-accountability-Pa6RI Jan 8, 2002 No Child Left Behind Act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0--2nhsDorg