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75% males
65% females
3 R's (Reading, Writing, Rithmetic)
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Thomas Jefferson creates a two-part educational system.
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Webster was dissatisfied with English textbooks so he wrote a book named "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language". This book has three sections.
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Western territories were divided into townships made up of 640-acre sections, and were set aside "for the maintenance of public schools."
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This academy opens in Philadelphia and becomes the first academy for girls in America.
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James Pillans creats the first black board
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The Connecticut Asylum at Hartford for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons opens. It is a permanent school for the deaf in the U.S.
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The first public high school in Boston English High School opens.
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The state of Massachusetts passes a law requiring towns of more than 500 families to have a public high school open for all students.
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The New England Asylum for the Blind, now known as the Perkins School for the Blind, in Massachusetts, the first school in the U.S. for children with visual disabilities.
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Louisville, Kentucky appoints the first school superintendent.
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Eighty women get to be the first to have a little taste of college arrive at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
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The African Institute (later called the Institute for Colored Youth) opens in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. The oldest institution of higher learning for African Americans.
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Massachusetts passes the first mandatory attendance law. All states follow this by 1918.
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Pennsylvania funds the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, which is a private school for children with intellectual disabilities.
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The Boston Public Library opens to the public. It is the first "free municipal library" in the U.S.
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The Michigan State Supreme Court rules that Kalamazoo gives taxes to support a public high school.
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Meharry Medical College is founded in Nashville, Tennessee. It is the first medical school in the south for African Americans.
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The Dewey Decimal System
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Educational reformer Ella Flagg Young becomes the first female superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools.
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Indianola Junior High School opens that fall and becomes the first junior high school in the U.S.
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Public education funding suffers greatly, resulting in school closings, teacher layoffs, and lower salaries because of the stock market crash.
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California School District becomes the first successful school desegregation court case in the United States, as the local court forbids the school district from placing Mexican-American children in a separate "Americanization" school.
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"separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,"
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The ACT Test is first administered.
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Public Law 358, the Veterans Readjustment Benefits Act of 1966, provides educational benefits,
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The Bilingual Education Act, also know as Title VII, becomes The No Child Left Behind in 2002.
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McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma, Washington becomes the nation's first magnet school.
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The Monkey Trial basically prohibited the teaching of evolution in a public school.
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The case of Diana v. California State Board results in new laws requiring that children referred for possible special education placement be tested in their primary language.
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In Ivan Illich's controversial book, Deschooling Society, he criticizes traditional schools and calls for the end of compulsory school attendance.
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In Ivan Illich controversial book, Deschooling Society, he criticizes traditional schools and calls for the end of compulsory school attendance.
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In the case of Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v. Pennsylvania, the federal court rules that students with mental retardation are entitled to a free public education.
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Marian Wright Edelman founds the Children's Defense Fund, a non-profit child advocacy organization.
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The Equal Educational Opportunities Act prohibits discrimination and requires schools to take action to overcome barriers which prevent equal protection.
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The Education of All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142) becomes federal law and requires that a free, appropriate public education, are available for handicapped students.
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John Holt's book, Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education, adds momentum to the homeschooling movement.
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City Academy High School, the nation's first charter school, opens in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Whiteboards find their way into U.S. classrooms in increasing numbers and begin to replace the blackboard.
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CompuHigh is the first online high school.
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Georgia becomes the first state to offer preschool to four year olds
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On January 1, 2007, the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) became the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), joining the trend toward use of the term intellectual disability in place of mental retardation.
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New York parents opt 150,000 kids out of standardized tests as the revolt against high-stakes testing grows.
