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Juan Pablo Bonet published the first book on Deaf Education in Madrid
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Harvard College was the first Post-Secondary school in North American continent and established in the Boston, Massachusetts area.
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Puritans pass first public education law. 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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Formal Schooling became more desirable
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First printed in boston. The New England Primer was a textbook used by students in the 19th century.
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The first publicly supported library in the U.S. is established in Charles Town, South Carolina.
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Benjamin Franklin helps to establish the first "English Academy" in Philadelphia with a curriculum that is both classical and modern, including such courses as history, geography, navigation, surveying, and modern as well as classical languages. The academy ultimately becomes the University of Pennsylvania.
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The Young Ladies Academy opens in Philadelphia and becomes the first academy for girls in America.
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James Pillans invents the blackboard.
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The first public high school, Boston English High School, opens
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Kindergarten was first founded.
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The first state funded school specifically for teacher education (then known as "normal" schools) opens in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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The Department of Education is created in order to help states establish effective school systems.
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Howard University is established in Washington D.C. to provide education for African American youth "in the liberal arts and sciences.
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Massachusetts enacts the first mandatory attendance 16 states have compulsory-attendance laws, but most of those laws are sporadically enforced at best. All states have them by 1918.
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Joliet Junior College, in Joliet, Illinois, opens. It is the first public community college in the U.S.
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is founded. It is charted by an act of Congress in 1906, the same year the Foundation encouraged the adoption of a standard system for equating "seat time" (the amount of time spent in a class) to high school credits.
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In the case of Everson v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court rules by a 5-4 vote that a New Jersey law which allowed reimbursements of transportation costs to parents of children who rode public transportation to school, even if their children attended Catholic schools, did NOT violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
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In the case of McCollum v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court rules that schools cannot allow "released time" during the school day which allows students to participate in religious education in their public school classrooms.
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The U.S. Supreme Court announces its decision in the case of Brown v. Board. of Education of Topeka, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,
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The ACT Test is first administered
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First grader Ruby Bridges is the first African American to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. She becomes a class of one as parents remove all Caucasian students from the school.
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The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is passed on April 9. Part of Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," it provides federal funds to help low-income students, which results in the initiation of educational programs such as Title I and bilingual education.
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McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma, Washington becomes the nation's first magnet school.
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President Barack Obama announces on September 23 that the U.S. Department of Education is inviting each State educational agency to request flexibility regarding some requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Alabama becomes the first state "to require public schools to check the immigration status" of students. Though the law does not require schools to prohibit the enrollment nor report the names of undocumented children,
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Edmund Sass, Ed.D., Professor of Education at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University.
