history of education and technology

By jschwarting

  • First Public School - Boston Latin School

  • Massachusetts requires town to hire a teacher, if there are 50 or more families in a town

  • Oberlin College - first to admit men and women

  • 1st kindergarten Watertown, Wisconsin

  • Department of Education is created

  • The Pledge of Allegiance is first used in public schools

  • Teach for America is founded

  • 31 states had compulsory school attendance for students ages 8-14

  • Mandatory school attendance laws are in place in every state

  • Every state required students to complete elementary school

  • SAT administered for the first time

  • Brown vs. Board of Education takes place in Supreme Court

  • ACT administered for the first time

  • Schools are racially segregated

  • Engel vs. Vitale

    prayer in public schools

  • Abington School District vs. Schempp

    read 10 Bible verses and recite The Lord's Prayer

  • Lyndon B. Johnson - Elementary and Secondary Education Act

  • Online teaching first comes out

  • Tinker vs. Des Moines

    Freedom of Speech

  • Segregated schooling eliminated

  • Biometrics

  • Lemon vs. Kurtzman

    providing financial support for teachers salaries and textbooks in parochial schools

  • Wisconsin vs. Yoder

    Amish refused to send children to school past 8th grade

  • San Antonio Independent School District vs. Rodriguez

    lack of funding

  • "Clickers"

  • 3D Printing

  • New Jersey vs. TLO

    protection against unreasonable searches and seizures

  • Augmented Reality

  • SMART board invented

  • First charter school - Saint Paul, Minnesota

  • United States vs. Lopez

    guns in school zones

  • Box Tops for Education

  • No Child Left Behind adopted

  • Moodle

  • Podcasts invented

  • Youtube

  • Cloud computing

  • Quizlet opened to public

  • Multi-touch LCD Screens

  • Parents Involved in Community Schools vs. Seattle

    using race as a factor for admission

  • Edmodo invented

  • Common Core

  • iPads invented

  • ebackpack

  • Google Docs invented

  • Mobile Devices introduced into classrooms

  • Kahoot invented

    learning game

  • Virtual field trips

  • Google classroom

  • Every Student Succeeds Act replaces No Child Left Behind

  • Besty DeVos as Secretary of Education

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