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The first public school opens in Boston Massachusetts.
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Schools charge tuition
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The General Court of assachusetts Bay decrees that every town of 50 families should have an elementary school and that every town of 100 families should have a latin school. The goal is to ensure thatPuritan children learn to read the bible and receive basic information about their Calvinist religion.
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Thomas Jefferson proposes a two-track educational system, with different tracks in his words for "the laboring and the learned."Scholarship would allow a very few of the laboring class to advance, Jefferson says, by "raking a fewgeniuses from the rubbish."
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Pennsylvania state constitution calls for free public education but only forpoor children. It is expected that rich people will pay for their childrewn's schooling.
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The first teachers' union was formed with only 100 members.
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Public schools become a tax-payers burden.
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With the launch of Sputnik, fear inspired the re-vamping of the science and math curricul in public schools.
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NGA and CCSSO release for public comment a draft of college and career ready standards (a product of input from the standards' writing team, state education agency leaders, and a panel of outside education experts and practitioners). Nearly 1,000 responses, summarized here, were received from educators and the public.
ref: http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/development-process/#timeline-2007 accessed: 02012016 -
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