History of American Education

  • Mar 11, 1467

    Latin Grammer schools

    the grammar school of 14th to 16th-century Europe,
  • John Locke 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704

    was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism".
  • Massachusetts Bay School Law

    This law required that the parents and the master make sure that the student know the principles of religion and the capital laws of the common weatlh
  • Deluder Satan Act

    Deluder Satan Act
    First law to force children to go to school. This was said to keep them from satan and make sure that they learned the scriptures.
  • Christian Von Wolff (24 January 1679 – 9 April 1754)

  • New England Primer

    New England Primer
    The very textbook-- used for American Colonies.
  • Benjamin Franklin(January 17, 1706.April 17, 1790)

    eading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
  • Noah WebsterOctober 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843

    American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author
  • Constitution and Bill of RIghts Ratified.

  • Horace Mann( May 4, 1796

    Education reformer
  • Boston English High School

    is one of the first public high schools in America,
  • Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

    a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.
  • New York State Asylum for Idiots

    an asylum for people deemed "idiots"
  • Lincoln University

    the United States' first degree-granting historically black university.
  • John Dewey, (born Oct. 20, 1859, Burlington, Vt., U.S.—died June 1, 1952,

    American philosopher and educator who was a founder of the philosophical movement known as pragmatism, a pioneer in functional psychology, and a leader of the progressive movement in education in the United States
  • The First Morrill Act

    The grant was originally set up to establish institutions is each state that would educate people in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, and other professions that were practical at the time.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    Freed the slaves and was a step in the direction to allow black students to attend school.
  • 13th Amendment

    Abolished slavery
  • Howard University

    a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university in Washington, D.C.
  • Carlisle Indian Industrial School

    the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States
  • Plessy VS Ferguson

    requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
  • McGuffey Readers

    series of graded primers, including grade levels 1-6, widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century,
  • Smith-Hughes Act

    that promoted vocational agriculture to train people "who have entered upon or who are preparing to enter upon the work of the farm," and provided federal funds for this purpose
  • GI BILL

    Gave veterans money to attend college
  • National School Lunch Act

    It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day
  • Brown VS Board of Education

    Declared that the seperation of black and white schools was unconstitional and pushed for intergration
  • National Defense Education Act

    provided funding to improve American schools and to promote postsecondary education.
  • Civil rights act

    outlawed discrimination against sex, race, age, color, or natiional origin.
  • The Elementary and Secondary Education Act

    It guaranteed every child an equal education. More teachers were hired. More money was spent.
  • Kindergarten

    Headstart program
  • 14th Amendment

    This gave the blacks citizenship
  • Bilingual Education Act

    was the first piece of United States federal legislation that recognized the needs of Limited English Speaking Ability (LESA) students.
  • Indian Education Act

    establishing a comprehensive approach to meeting the unique needs of American Indian and Alaska Native students.
  • Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972

    . Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.
  • Rehabilitation act

    Federal legislation that authorizes the formula grant programs of vocational rehabilitation, supported employment, independent living, and client assistance
  • Dame Schools

    an early form of a private elementary school in English-speaking countries. They were usually taught by women and were often located in the home of the teacher.
  • Plyler V Doe

    was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a state statute denying funding for education to unauthorized immigrant children and simultaneously struck down a municipal school district's attempt to charge unauthorized immigrants an annual $1,000 tuition