Diversity in Education.

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  • First Wave of Feminism

    First Wave of Feminism
    Feminism officially started in 1848 when there was a women's rights convention at Seneca Falls. THe focused a lot on women's right to voted. This kicked off what was the start of Feminism, but eventually lead to even more in the future.

  • Segregation Legal in Schools

    The Supreme Court of Massachusetts legalized the segregation of schools.

  • Brown vs. The Board of Education

    This was teh beginning of the end of the legal segregation of schools in America. But not the racism.

  • African American Citizens.

    African Americans could legally claim to be citizens as of 1868.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson,

    Plessy v. Ferguson,
    The 1896 Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, was a landmark case which established the legal precedent for “separate but equal” facilities for people of different ethnicities.

  • Americanization School

    The first so-called Americanization School was built by Irving J. Gill in Oceanside, California in 1931. Its goal was to teach Spanish-speakers the English language and American customs.

  • 2nd Wave of Feminism

    This wave came in the 1960s after the right to vote was granted. This focused on sexuality, politics, work, and family.

  • Women's Rights push for Reform

    In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the women's rights movement joined this push for education reform. Women's rights groups challenged inequities in employment and educational opportunities as well as income, identifying education as a primary contributing factor in institutionalized and systemic sexism. Feminist scholars and other women activists, like groups of color before them, insisted on curricula more inclusive of their histories and experiences.

  • MLK

    MLK
    Martin Luther King Jr. gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech about a world without segregation.

  • James Banks and Multicultural Education

    James Banks, one of the pioneers of multicultural education, was among the first multicultural education scholars to examine schools as social systems from a multicultural context. He grounded his conceptualization of multicultural education in the idea of “educational equality.”

  • GSAs

    GSAs
    The first GSA was started in 1988, in Concord, Massachusetts at Concord Academy by Kevin Jennings, the founder and head of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network GLSEN. The first public school gay–straight alliance was started at Newton South High School (Newton Centre, Massachusetts) by teacher Robert Parlin.

  • More Minorities

    From the 1990s to early 2000s more minority groups from other countries started to emerge in our public school systems.

  • 3rd Wave of Feminism (Women's Art)

    This emerged in the mid 1990s. It was led by Generation Xers who, born in the 1960s and '70s in the developed world, came of age in a media-saturated and culturally and economically diverse milieu. This was an era where feminist art and women's art in general started to take more importance.

  • National Association for Multicultural Education

    Founded to help multicultural students implement into school.

  • 1990s Gay-Straight Alliances in Schools

    1990s Gay-Straight Alliances in Schools
    The first gay–straight alliances to be established in public schools in the early 1990s faced stiff opposition from faculty, administration and parents of students, with protests and fierce debates over the matter, but GSAs have since been established for middle school students in a number of jurisdictions.

  • No Child Left Behind Act

    No Child Left Behind Act
    The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. ... The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills.

  • Me Too Movement

    In 2006, Burke founded the Me Too movement and began using the phrase "Me Too" to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse and assault in society. The phrase "Me Too" developed into a broader movement following the 2017 use of #MeToo as a hashtag following the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations.

  • FAIR Education Act

    FAIR Education Act
    In 2011, the State Legislature passed the FAIR Education Act, which, if signed into law, would make California the first state in the United States to mandate the teaching of LGBT-affirmative social sciences (i.e., LGBT history) in the public school system and forbid discriminatory language in the school curriculum.

  • Black Lives Matter

    n the summer of 2013, after George Zimmerman's acquittal for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the movement began with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. The movement was co-founded by three black community organizers: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi.