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Public School
First public school in the American Colonies , Boston Latin school opens in 1635 -
Period: to
colonial period
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Teachers to educate
Massachusetts Bay becomes the first to require towns at least 50 households .hire teachers in the town . Towns of a 100 families should build public elementary schools -
Evening school
working children is established in New Amsterdam -
Quaker School
Quaker school for black students established in Philadelphia -
John Leverett
First non-degree president at Harvard -
Adam Smith
notion of the voucher system is born with farmed economist -
New York public
The New York Public
School Society is formed by
wealthy businessmen to
provide education for poor
children. Schools are run
on the “Lancasterian”
model, in which one “master”
teaches hundreds of
students in a signal room -
Period: to
modern period
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Horace Mann
Massachussetts
establishes a board of
education, naming
former educational
reformer, Horace
Mann, as the first
secretary of the
Board. His annual
salary was $1,000 -
Ohio
Ohio becomes the
firs t state to
adopt a bilingual
education law,
allowing for
German-English
instruction at
parents’ requests -
disabilities
The first school for
children with mental
disabilities opens in
Massachusetts. -
attendance
Massachusetts
enacts the first
compulsory
school-attendance
law in
the U.S. -
lunch program
The Children’s Aid Society of New York
implements the first school lunch program. -
PTA
Alice McLellan Birney,
one of the orginial
founders of the PTA,
and her three children. -
May 17th
On May 17th, 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," thus overturning its previous ruling in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson. Brown v. Board of Education is actually a combination of five cases from different parts of the country. It is a historic first step in the long and still unfinished journey toward equality in U.S. education. -
First Published
First published in 1934, Lev Vygotsky's book, Thought and Language is introduced to the English-speaking world. Though he lives to only 38, Vygotsky's ideas regarding the social nature of learning provide important foundational principles for contemporary social constructivist theories. He is perhaps best known for his concept of "Zone of Proximal Development." -
equal education
The Equality of Educational Opportunity Study often called the Coleman Report because of its primary author James S. Coleman, is conducted in response to provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Its conclusion that African American children benefit from attending integrated schools sets the stage for school "busing" to achieve desegregation. -
library
n the case of Board of Education v. Pico, the U.S. Supreme court rules that books cannot be removed from a school library because school administrators deemed their content to be offensive.