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The Boston Latin School was founded and was the first public school. It is the oldest existing school in the U.S.
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Ursuline Academy in New Orleans is the oldest Catholic school in the US as well as the oldest all girls school.
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Originally named the New England Asylum for the blind.
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First such position in the United States
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Nebraska's oldest university and the largest in the University of Nebraska system. The university is organized into eight colleges on two campuses in Lincoln. Go Huskers!
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Ada H. Kepley graduated Union College of Law in Chicago.
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was the longest used one room school in Nebraska history. (1872-1967) Located at the Homestead National Monument.
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In 1873 located in New York City, this was the first school founded on the principles of nursing established by Florence Nightingale.
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Founded by Booker T. Washington, this is a Historically black college with alumni including Keenen Ivory Wayans, Lionel Ritchie, and the members of the Commodore's who met while attending. George Washington Carver was a professor here as well.
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Separate but Equal
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34 states required students to attend schools until at least the age of 14
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Something to replace slate! Pencils and paper.
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an idea founded by Nicolas Isaranga. to accommodate the popular team and individual games and sports that are in a school curriculum.
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Also known as the GI Bill.
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Fun time in school! Who didn't love a movie day?
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was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. It also repelled Plessy vs Ferguson.
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The NAACP decided to start enrolled African American students into all white schools. This was met with much backlash in Little Rock, Arkansas, where 9 studnes were set to attend Central High School. These students were: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals. Ernest Green was the first African American to graduate from Central High School.
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Federal Scholarships and Low Interest Loans were increased
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As of 2017 the district has 402 students, including my son. in 1966 it consolidated various schools to create one.
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A geographic information system or geographical information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data.
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making testing much easier for teachers across the nation.
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In Huntsville, Alabama based at the U.S Space & Rocket Center, children from all 50 states can go and learn about all the fun things NASA has to offer.
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•Some 23 million American adults are functionally illiterate by the simplest tests of everyday reading, writing, and comprehension. •About 13 percent of all 17-year-olds in the United States can be considered functionally illiterate. Functional illiteracy among minority youth may run as high as 40 percent. •Average achievement of high school students on most standardized tests is now lower than 26 years ago when Sputnik was launched.
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Drug Abuse Resistance Education is an education program that seeks to prevent use of controlled drugs, membership in gangs, and violent behavior. Founded in Los Angeles in 1983
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The smart board system offers an information space that allows students to engage in active collaboration. (Wikipedia)
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a battery powered, portable word-processing keyboard. Very popular in schools for their price and durability.
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In 1994 a group of people founded the San Francisco Digital Media Center. in 1998, they moved to Berkeley and became the Center for Digital Storytelling, and finally in 2015 they became, simply, StoryCenter.
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This was the year I learned to tie my shoes, count to 100, I was never able to nap though.
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Started in 1995 by Dale Hubert it involved a paper cut out of a children's book character. Students can send him all over the world and get correspondence via the web.
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One of the goals is to increase critical thinking. It can be a versatile tool for teaching students. Webquest requires good reading skills.
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requires all public schools receiving federal funding to administer a statewide standardized test annually to all students.
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A prek-8 math solution driven by a unique technology. Every child can excel at learning.
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I graduated from Cabot High School in Cabot, Arkansas. My graduating class size was over 600. I mistakenly wore heels, I did not fall.
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A virtual classroom with blogs.
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A web-based presentation software founded in Budapest, Hungary in 2009. This program is free for hundreds of thousands of Title 1 high school teachers across the US thanks to the Connected initiative.
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sets a national vision and plan for learning enabled by technology through building on the work of leading education researchers; district, school, and higher education leaders; classroom teachers; developers; entrepreneurs; and nonprofit organizations
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Students in schools started using IPADs in their daily education plans.
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The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a US law passed in December 2015 that governs the United States K–12 public education policy. The law replaced its predecessor, the No Child Left Behind Act, and modified but did not eliminate provisions relating to the periodic standardized tests given to students. (Wikipedia)
