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American education and the world
The first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States is established at Jamestown, Virginia, led by Captain John Smith. -
American education and religion
The Mayflower arrives at New Plymouth in November of 1620, bringing Pilgrims who had fled religious persecution in England in which their religious views came to dominate education in the New England colonies. -
American education and curriculum
The Puritan families were concerned with the thoughts that someday their trained and learned leaders would be no more. -
American education and technology
Early public schools adopted the teacher/manager model with the teacher as the primary manager of instruction and assessment in a single classroom. -
American education and curriculum
The foundation of education was considered as reading, writing, arithmetic, and Bible study. These subjects were the main focus of the curriculum -
American education and funding
The New York Public School Society was formed to provide education for poor children. -
American Education and Students with Special Needs
The first school for disabled children was the American School for the Deaf and Dumb founded in Hartford, Connecticut by Thomas Gallaudet and it still exists today. -
American education and minorities (including women/girls)
Catherine Beecher was co-founder of the Hartford Female Seminary whose purpose was to train women to be mothers and teachers. -
American education and religion
A letter written by Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is published in support of using the Bible as a school textbook. As a sidebar, he was quoted as saying in 1782, "The Revolutionary War may be over, but the battle of independence has just begun." -
American education and the world
The Department of Education is created in order to collect information on schools and teaching in order to help states establish effective school systems. -
American Education and Students with Special Needs
William Torrey Harris, superintendent of Public Schools for St. Louis institutes the earliest systematic efforts in public schools to educate gifted students. -
American Education and Students with Special Needs
Lewis Terman was known as the “father of the gifted” education movement. -
American education and funding
The Smith-Hughes Act created a Federal Board of Vocational Education to establish and oversee the operation of vocational education in the areas of agriculture, trades and industry, and home economics. -
American education and the courts
Thurgood Marshall decided to challenge the University Of Maryland School Of Law for rejecting him because of their racial acceptance policy -
American education and the courts
Sylvia Mendez was denied enrollment in a California public school for “whites only.”Sylvia went on to earn degrees in nursing and became the Assistant Nursing Director of the Pediatric Pavilion at the Los Angeles University of Southern California Medical Center. Mendez grew up during a time when most southern and southwestern schools were segregated. In the case of California, Hispanics were not allowed to attend schools that were designated for "Whites" only and were sent to the so-called "Mexi -
American education and technology
The first generation computer (ENIAC) built by Presper Eckert, and John Mauchly were huge, slow, expensive, and often undependable. This model used thousands of vacuum tubes, which took up a lot of space and gave off a great deal of heat -
American education and minorities (including women/girls)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas declares that segregation of students in public schools based on their race is unconstitutional and it deprives children of equal educational opportunities. -
American education and technology
Elementary and Secondary Education Act brings new money into schools for technology. Mainframes and minicomputers are put into place in some schools, but most are used for administration or for school counseling -
American education and curriculum
No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)—Approved by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush.
