Education Through the centuries

  • 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