Education Timeline

By hnsmith02

  • Founding of Jamestown Colony

    First successful English settlement

  • First Latin Grammar School

    Started preparing boys for higher education

  • Harvard College

    Educated the Clergy

  • Massachusetts Bay Law School

    Transferred educational supervision from the clergy to the selectmen of the colony.

  • Old Deluder Satan Law

    Required parents to ensure their children's ability to read

  • New England Primer

    Promoted literacy, proliferated compulsory education, and solidified a Calvinist ethic in colonial America

  • College of William and Mary

    Graduates leave with the leadership skills to advocate for change in the profession

  • Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke

    Argued for a broadened syllabus and better treatment of students.

  • Charlestown, South Carolina Public Library

  • American Philosophical Society

  • Academy of Philadelphia Established by Benjamin Franklin

  • Philadelphia School for African Americans

  • American Spelling Book, by Noah Webster

  • Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia

  • English Classical School (Later renamed English High School)