Education Timeline Chapter 7

By alexishad

  • First "free school" opens in Virginia

  • Harvard College is established in Massachusetts

  • First Education Law, stated that kids need to understand "the principles of religion and the laws of the Commonwealth"

  • John Locke publishes essay about Human Understanding which greatly influences American education

  • Thomas Jefferson proposes two tracks for education after the Declaration is signed

  • Because of the Bill of Rights, education becomes a function of the state rather than the federal government

  • The modern blackboard is invented!

  • One of the first public high schools in the U.S. opens!

  • First schools in the U.S. for children with visual disabilities

  • First state school funded specifically for teacher education in Massachusetts

  • University of Iowa is first state university to admit men and women on an equal basis

  • Modern typewriter is invented

  • Department of Education is created to help states maintain order in establishing effective school systems

  • Civil Rights Act is passed, banning segregation from schools

  • Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is founded

  • Thomas Edison stated that

    "“Books will soon be obsolete in the schools. Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye. It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed in ten years” (Cengage 187).

  • ACT test is first administered

  • A Nation at Risk

    report called for all high school graduates to be able to both understand and use computers (Cengage 190).