Events in history that shaped the American public education system

  • American Women's Educational Association Founded

    "Catherine Beecher, founder of the Hartford female Seminary in 1848, organized the American Women's Educationl Association in 1851 to advance the role of women in the nation's development by arguing that women were especially fit to foster literacy and morality in the young." (Breitborde p. 229)
  • Brown Vs. Board of Education

    Struck down the "seperate but equal" idea paving the way for the desegregation of schools.
  • Elementary and Secondary Education Act

    This law was inacted to help children across the nation receive proper schooling despite their financial means.
  • Indian Education Act

    This Act made the education system recogonize the unique nature of Native Americans academic needs and established a baseline for helping meet those needs.
  • Apple introduces Apple II

    This introduction brought the personal computer into the classroom as a learning tool, beginning with games like Oregon Trail to typing lessons this revolutionized classrooms across the nation.
  • Smart board is introduced by SMART Technologies

    These were developed in the year 1991, the day is not mentioned anywhere on the company's webpage. These have changed the way teachers are able to teach in the classroom, going from chalkboards to whiteboards to the ability to allow children to interact with technology in a group setting.
  • No Child Left Behind Act

    Made testing benchmark of how children and teachers are "graded" across the nation.