History of Education By briford06 1636 Harvard Established as First College https://www.harvard.edu/programs/history/ 1787 First Academy for Girls https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/womens-education/#:~:text=John%20Poor%20(1752%2D1829),where%20the%20Constitution%20was%20written. 1821 First Public School https://www.englishhighalumni.org/copy-of-200th-anniversary 1867 Department of Education Established https://www.ed.gov/ 1867 Howard University for African American Students Established https://howard.edu/ 1873 Economic Depression- Many School Closings https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/beyond-the-textbook/24579 1920 Progressive Education Association Established https://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/articles/proged.html 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education (segregation in schools) https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka#:~:text=Sources-,Brown%20v.,in%20public%20schools%20was%20unconstitutional. 1970 Segregation Came to an End https://law.jrank.org/pages/10023/School-Desegregation-1970s-Swann-Busing.html 1980 Technology Introduced into Classrooms https://www.classcraft.com/blog/the-history-of-the-emergence-of-technology-in-education/
