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Massachusetts Reform School at Westborough opens, where children who have refused to attend public schools are sent. This begins a long tradition of "reform schools," which combine the education and juvenile justice systems
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At the end of World War 2, the G.I. Bill of Rights gives thousands of working class men college scholarships for the first time in U.S. history.
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Merging the College Entrance Examination Board, the Cooperative Test Service, the Graduate Records Office, and the National Committee on Teachers Examinations and others, with huge grants from the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundation.
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Segregated schools are "inherently unequal" and must be abolished.
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Administered by Everett Franklin Lindquist
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It provides federal funds to help low-income students, which results in the initiation of educational programs such as Title I and bilingual education
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It increases federal aid to higher education and provides for scholarships, student loans, and establishes a National Teachers Corps.
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A case dealing with the planned desegregation busing of public school students. It confirmed that segregation was allowed if it was not considered an explicit policy of the school district.
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Requires a common curriculum and statewide tests
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Approved by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush. The major focus of No Child Left Behind is to close student achievement gaps by providing all children with a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education.
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A non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing K-12 online education
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Provides more than 90-billion dollars for education, nearly half of which goes to local school districts to prevent layoffs and for school modernization and repair.
