Education Through the centuries

By ghezzithegreatest

  • Havard is founded

    Harvard becomes the first provider of higher education in what is now America

  • William and Mary founded

  • Benjamin Franklin starts the University of Pennsylvania

  • The Blackboard is used with chalk for the first time

  • First public high school is opened in Boston

  • Massachusetts requires towns to have public school

  • The widely used textbook The McGuffey Reader is published

  • Mandatory attendance in all states

  • In Brown vs Board it is ruled that seperate but equal is unconsitutional

  • Title IX prohibits discrimination by sex in all areas of schools

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