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Evolution of American Public School System in the US

By decoud21

  • Public Schools

    Public Schooling was established.
  • Period: to

    Evolution of public school systems

  • New Educational Ideas

    Benjamin Franklin brings educational ideas from European Enlightenment to the US.

  • Two-track system

    Thomas Jefferson proposes a two-track educational system.

  • Young Ladies Academy

    First academy for girls opens in Philadelphia

  • Reserved Powers

    Education becomes a function of the state rather than the federal government.

  • School became mandatory

    The first compulsory school attendance law was passed in Massachusetts in 1852, in Massachusets.

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Supreme court ruled "separate-but-equal" unconstitutional in the school system.

  • Desegregation

    Supreme court ruled that all school districts must end segregation in public schools

  • Mainstreaming in public schools

    Handicapped students are involved in normal classrooms.

  • NCLB Act

    No Child Left Behind Act passed.