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The Connecticut Asylum at Hartford for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons
The Connecticut Asylum at Hartford for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons was the first permanent school for the deaf in the United States. I was founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/detail.html?id=1371 -
The Ashmun Institute
The Ashmun Institute, now known as Lincoln University, was the first institution anywhere in the world to provide higher education in the arts and sciences for male youth of African descent. http://www.lincoln.edu/about/history -
The First Morrill Act
The First Morrill Act, also known as the "Land Grant Act," donated public lands to states for the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading objective was to teach branches of learning related to agriculture and the mechanic arts in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes. http://www3.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/morrill.html -
The Society to Encourage Studies at Home
Founded in Boston by Anna Eliot Ticknor in 1873, the school afforded women the opportunity for study and enlightenment, and it became the first correspondence school in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_to_Encourage_Studies_at_Home -
Meharry Medical College
Meharry Medical College was founded by brothers brothers Alexander, David, Hugh and Jesse Meharry in Nashville, Tennessee 1876. it was the first medical school in the south for African Americans, and it continues to thrive to this day. http://www.mmc.edu/about/salt-wagon-story.html -
The Dewey Decimal System
The Dewey Decimal System was developed by Melvil Dewey in 1873, and it continues to be the world's most widely-used library classification system. http://mypages.iit.edu/~smart/halsey/lesson1.htm -
The Second Morrill Act
The Second Morrill Act provided for the "more complete endowment and support of the colleges" through the sale of public lands, and a portion of the funding led to the creation of 19 current historically black land-grant colleges. https://nifa.usda.gov/announcement/nation%E2%80%99s-historically-black-land-grant-universities-mark-126-years-second-morrill-act -
The Laboratory School at the University of Chicago
Dewey established the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago in 1896 to create both a "miniature society" and "embryonic community" in which he could test and eventually implement his five-step "complete act of thought" method Gutek (2013, p. 291) https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_46-1 -
Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls
Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls was founded by Mary McLeod Bethune in Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune only had $1.50, faith in God, and five little girls when she founded the school. In 1923, the school merged with the Cookman Institute and became a coeducational high school, which eventually evolved into Bethune-Cookman College,which is currently known as Bethune-Cookman University. http://www.cookman.edu/about_bcu/history/ -
Indianola Junior High School
Indianola Junior High School was established and opened in 1909 by the Columbus Ohio School Board in and effort to improve high school graduation rates. It was the first junior high school in the United States. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Indianola_Junior_High_School?rec=2691
