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The Massachusetts Bay Colonies established a law that requires a town of 50 or more people to establish a school in that town. Towns with 100 people or more had to establish a Latin school.
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The first higher education school founded in America.
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There was also legislation created to enodrse these public libraries.
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Benjamin Franklin helped establish this school. It taught a mixture of contemporary and classical elements like religion, navigation, history, geography, and classical languages. This academy would become the University of Pennsylvania.
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He stated that in order to be a functioning, enlightened republic, the people of the sociey must be properly educated. He also stressed the importance of the government's responisibilty to the public to educate the people.
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Noah Webster was unsatisfied with the textbooks available to schools and published his own. It was a trilogy of books, one for spelling, grammar, and reading named "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language".
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It would be the first school for women, foudned in Pennsylvania. The material was strictly limited to reading, writing, dancing, and religion.
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It was named the Boston English High School
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This is the oldest higher learning institution for African Americans
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By 1885, 16 states would have laws that would require school attendance.
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Founded by forty-three teachers in Pennsylvania.
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Written by Charles Darwin, this book suggests the idea of evolution, which would be controversial in schools to this day.
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It was founded in order to establish more structured schools.
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching created a new system in high schools that made "seat time" into credits, therefore time spent in a class would determine if you pass or fail. This system is still in use today. This foundation also created the TIAA-CREF.
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This bill allowed returning veterans to go back to college and recieve a university degree, which would create an outpouring of college graduates, many who became teachers.
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This is an unprecedented Supreme Court case that stated that segregated institutions, especially schools, were not equal. This would being the long process of desegregation in the American school system.
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This act included the "504 Plan" as well as requiring public schools to give accomadations to those with learning disabilities.
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These shootings would have a great impact on school safety as well as bring attention to the alarming rate in which school shootings happen.
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Enacted by President Bush, this act required schools to be responsible for student acheivment and for consequences to be acted upon if the schools do not reach certain standards.
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The number of minorities enrolled in K-12 schools outnumber the amount of non-Hispanic Caucaisan students.
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President Barack Obama stated that standardized testing has become too much and should only take up 2% of a child's school hours.