Historical Timeline

By Kyra.Johnson

  • The first college in the US was founded (Harvard)

    Important because: a lot of teachers who were teaching children were inadequate so graduates got better education to teach the children.

  • New Amsterdam (New York) established their first school

    Important because: schools and education are expanding.

  • Connecticut and Rhode Island have their first paid teacher.

    Important because: teachers are now being paid for their work services, also teachers deserve to be paid for their work.

  • In larger cities secondary school was now required

    Important because: requiring education gives students at least some knowledge and understanding even if they don't want it or if there is some other outside source that prohibits education.

  • Enrollments Declined due to Evangelistic passions

    Important because: education was important but peoples spiritual beliefs got in the way.

  • Degrees were awarded at Virginia colony founded William and Mary College

    Important because: degrees and awards are important to people in a lot of ways, they show the completion of college and they can fulfill other personal agendas.

  • Moravian seminary for girls was established

    Important because: education for women was not as good as it was for men so a school for girls specifically would do good for that.

  • Benjamin Franklin established the Academy of Philadelphia

    Important because: again schools and education is expanding.

  • The first academy for girls was established

    Important because: education for women is just as important as it is for men so opening women's schools levels the playing field.

  • Military School was established (West Point)

    Important because: there were a lot of wars and battles around this time and after so training was good for them.

  • The first public school in the U.S. was established

    Important because: not everyone can afford private education.

  • The U.S. Naval Academy was established

    Important because: they do different things in different branches of the military so its good to have different schools for each.

  • The Department of Education was established

    Important because: it was very much needed to make important decisions for schools across the board so that schools weren't doing completely different things and are kind of on the same board.

  • Public schools were present in every state

    Important because: again not everyone can afford private education.

  • The Association of American Universities is founded to promote higher standards and put U.S. universities on an equal footing with their European counterparts

    Important because: schools could always use a better education.

  • The Progressive Education Association is founded with the goal of reforming American education

    Important because: again we could always use something that will better education.

  • At the end of World War 2, the G.I. Bill of Rights gives thousands of working class men college scholarships for the first time in U.S. history

    Important because: everyone deserves higher education or at least a chance at it.

  • egregation in schools went to the Supreme Court with Brown vs. Board of Education

    Important because: schools in the south began the slow process of desegregating schools which is always good because we should not be separated because of the color of our skin.

  • multi-millionaire Ron Unz puts a measure on the ballot outlawing bilingual education in California.

    Important because: it obviously failed but it's important that some of us get that option because some might want to extend it into college and use it in their career.