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First public school was in Boston
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Massachusetts was the first US state to make going to school mandatory
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Christopher Sholes invented the "modern" typewriter
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The first practical fountain pen, the capillary feed pen, was patented by Lewis Waterman.
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Formed by the National Education Association to establish a standard secondary school curriculum, the Committee of Ten, recommended a college-oriented high school curriculum that laid the foundation to modern high schools today
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Mass production of pens and paper
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Joliet Junior College in Joliet, Illinois
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WHA began broadcasting music education programs on the radio. This was one of the first uses of audio for education.
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All states by 1919 had laws to provide transportation for students.
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First used in the US military
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schools begin using radios in the classrooms
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52% of schools are using silent films and 3% are using films with sound
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headphones become popular in labs
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the first ACT test in November
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The change of education in the last 50 years
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Kohl's book The Open Classroom, helped to promote open education, an approach emphasizing student-centered classrooms and active, learning.
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these are used to automatically grade tests
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apple released their first personal computer
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called for all high school grads to use and understand computers
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the first independent version of windows
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the overhead projector mixed with a white board was created.
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created by General Mills, helping schools earn money by collecting coupons from food packaging, we did it in my middle school
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Electronics companies agree to make Wi-Fi a worldwide standard for wireless Internet.
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The Higher Education Act was amended and reauthorized, requiring institutions and states to produce "report cards" about teacher education performance.
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Requires all schools to teach English, passed by California.
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two students killing 15 other students and wounding 23
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A teaching method that essentially involves student's instruction taking place outside of the classroom through an interactive digital experience and the homework being done in class with the help of the teacher and other peers
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mandates high-stakes student testing, holds schools accountable for student achievement levels
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The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales
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expanding education for low and middle income students
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iClicker was one of the first tools to allow teachers to be able to quickly poll students and get results in real time.
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16%
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55%
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in 2007...similar to YouTube, it is a platform for teachers to share educational resource videos.
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Apple introduces a touchscreen cellphone called the iPhone
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Amazon.com launches its Kindle electronic book (e-book) reader
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8%
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provides over 90 billion dollars for education
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called for a "revolutionary transformation of education rather than evolutionary tinkering"
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Obama’s Race to the Top program makes a wave of education reforms as states compete for federal grants in the midst of a recession.
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11%
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