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This act required a town that was bigger than 50 families to have a grammar school. At the grammar school the masters also known as teacher will get the kids ready for universities after grammar school -
Mothers would teacher their children letters, numbers, reading, and writing at home. http://www.victorianschool.co.uk/school%20history%20dame%20school.html
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A law was passed that towns who had 500 families or more had to have high schools that had a 10 month program for them. It was publicly for both men and women -
In Germany, the first Kindergarten was created. A man named Friedrich Froebel thought that it was important for kids to have social interaction with other kids and to play with other kids.
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Sarah Roberts a young girl went to a poor black only school. When she tried to go to the white school that was closer to her house she was denied. This case went to the Massachusetts Supreme Court and was denied that she couldn't go to the white school. This was the start of the battle of desegregating schools.
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The U.S Supreme Court ruled in Meyer vs. Nebraska that the Nebraska Simons Act violates student's rights in the 14th Amendment. This is the first time that civil rights are protected at school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl1qxHhPd5E -
8,000 students took the SAT for the first time. It had 315 questions and was 90 minutes long. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/22/heres-the-very-first-sat-from-1926-can-you-pass-it/ (https://www.timetoast.com) -
In the Supreme Justice Court Brown vs. Board it was decided that "separate but equal" had no place in education which ended de jury segregation at school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX9Dmo24_cc (https://www.timetoast.com) -
Title IX stated that there could not be discrimination based on sex. That included financial aid, opportunities, and no advantages. https://www.indstate.edu/equalopportunity-titleix/titleix-information (https://www.timetoast.com)
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President Ronald Reagan put out a statement saying that America's education system was failing and that teachers and schools were not educating the students as well as they hoped. It also stated that school should be harder with more standardized testing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9WMI703WrA (https://www.timetoast.com)