History of Education

  • Common Schools movement

    Common Schools movement

    The effort to fund schools in every community with public dollars, this was the start of systematic public schooling in the US
  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education

    This established that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional, this was directly overruling Plessy vs. Ferguson's “separate but equal” ruling
    https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/history-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment
  • Elementary and Secondary Education Act

    Elementary and Secondary Education Act

    This distributed funding to schools with a high percentage of low-income students/families the goal was to raise the academic achievement of struggling students.
    https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/education/elementary-and-secondary-education-act-of-1965/
  • IDEA: individuals with disabilities education act

    IDEA: individuals with disabilities education act

    free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities and ensures special education and related services to those children.
    https://sites.ed.gov/idea/
  • Standards movement

    These were clear, measurable goals and learning standards for all students; this was the start of basic curriculum and assessments
    https://web.stanford.edu/~hakuta/www/archives/syllabi/CalTex_SBR/historysbr.html
  • No child Left Behind

    No child Left Behind

    States require students to be tested in reading and math (grades 3-12) and provide money for extra educational assistance for poor children in return for improvements in their academic progress.
    https://www2.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml
  • Race to the top begins

    Race to the top begins

    $4.35 billion United States Department of Education competitive grant created to spur and reward innovation and reforms in state and local districts
  • Largest mass school closing

    Chicago Board of Education voted to close 50 schools, the largest mass closing in US history. Teachers worried that with would disproportionately affects the African American students
  • Teacher Strike in West Virginia

    resulted in a 5% pay raise for teachers. There was anger among teachers and school employees over low pay and high healthcare costs
  • Covid-19

    Students went from in person classes to going completely online in the start of the pandemic. Since, there have been class modifications, online tasks, masks/shields, and social distancing in place so that students can go back to in person.