History of Education

By karlt

  • Havard

    first higher education created in the United States

  • The Massachusetts Law of 1647

    Every town with over 50 families requires a schoolmaster to teach the children to read and write. In towns with over 100 families it requires a schoolmaster to teach the children Latin grammar to prepare them for college

  • Noah Webster introduces the first speller

    Universal tool so all words are spelled the same way

  • The Bill of Rights

    education becomes a function of the state rather than of the federal government
  • An Act to Establish Public Education

    An Act to Establish Public Education

    An act to put a plan for education in the future

  • Modern Blackboard is Invented

  • First Public High School Opens

    Boston English High School Opens

  • Massachusets Passed Law

    Requires towns with 500 families to have a public high school

  • Horace Mann

    Secretary of newly formed Massachusetts State Board of Education. Fought for more funding and free and universal public education

  • African Institute Created

    First institution for higher education for African Americans

  • Oberlin College

    First coeducational school

  • First mandatory attendance

  • Pennsylvannia training school

  • the first kindergarten opens

  • challes Darwin

  • the j14th amendment passed

  • Department of ed

    establish effective school systems

  • Dewey decimal system was made

  • Measurement Movement

    It involves measuring the intelligence of each human brain.
  • Scopes Trail

    Scopes Trail

    Prosecution of science teacher for teaching evolution (which was illegal)

  • school intrgration

  • National Defense Education Act

    Created in order to enhance and strengthen the American School system through funds

  • the civil rights acts was past

  • Head Start Program

    Head Start Program

    Helps Preschool children (come from low-income family)
    Providing the Program to meet their emotional, social, health, and psychological needs
  • Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

    Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

    law that allows a free appropriate public education to children with disabilities

  • Standards Movement

    Set academic standards
    told teachers what students should know in their grade

  • Google

    changed how students learn and how teachers teach
  • No Child Left Behind

    No Child Left Behind

    Act
    Made so schools were aware and responsible for their students academic performance

  • Sandy Hook Shooting

    President called for new gun safety measures