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The first university, Harvard College, was established in Newtowne, Massachusetts.
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The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony says that every town of fifty families should have an elementary school and that every town of 100 families should have a Latin school.
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Thomas Jefferson introduced two different way for education for "the laboring and the learned." This let already richer people get better education and better job opportunities.
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James Pillans invented the blackboard by hanging a slab of slate on his classroom wall.
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First public high school in the U.S., Boston English, opens.
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The Hartford Female Seminary was founded as one of the first institutions allowing girls to get an education.
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An African Institute, Cheyney University, was founded in Pennsylvania.
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The first junior high school in the U.S., Indianola Junior High School, opened.
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The first Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) was administered.
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Jones International University, the first university to exist entirely online, was created.
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President G.W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act.