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Latin Grammar Schools are designed for sons of certain social classes who are destined for leadership positions in church, state, or the courts
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the first higher education institution in what is now the United States, is established in Newtowne (now Cambridge), Massachusetts
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decrees that every town of at least 50 families hire a schoolmaster who would teach the town's children to read and write and that all towns of at least 100 families should have a Latin grammar school master who will prepare students to attend Harvard College.
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his views on educating upper class boys to be moral, rationally-thinking, and reflective "young gentlemen"
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It is the second college to open in colonial America and has the distinction of being Thomas Jefferson's college
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different tracks for "the laboring and the learned"
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the first academy for girls in the original 13 colonies/states
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Boston English High School opens
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(later called the Institute for Colored Youth) opens in Cheyney, Pennsylvania, now called Cheyney University, it the oldest institution of higher learning for African Americans
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started in Watertown, Wisconsin, founded by Margarethe Schurz
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Booker T. Washington becomes the first principal of the newly-opened normal school in Tuskegee, Alabama, now Tuskegee University
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All states have laws providing funds for transporting children to school
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The stock market crash in October. The U.S. economy is devastated. Public education funding suffers greatly, resulting in school closings, teacher layoffs, and lower salaries
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Texas Instruments introduces the first in its line of electronic hand-held calculators, the TI-2500 Data Math. TI becomes an industry leader known around the world
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the first to offer online bachelor's and master's degrees. It becomes the "largest private university in North America"
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the first school to teach primarily through game-based learning, opens in September in New York City with a class of sixth graders There are plans to add a grade each year until the school serves students in grades six through twelve
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the federal government tells school districts "to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity"
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a federal judge in Texas signs a temporary injunction allowing schools to opt out of the above transgender bathroom directive
