History of Education

By Daren123211
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    Colonial Period

  • The Horn Book

    a teaching aid consisting of a leaf of paper showing the alphabet, and often the ten digits and the Lord's Prayer, mounted on a wooden tablet and protected by a thin plate of horn.

  • First Latin Grammer School

    School in the New England colonies for upper class males that taught the subjects necessary for admission to college.

  • The Founding of Havard college

    Founded in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and one of the most prestigious in the world.

  • Massachusetts Act of 1642

    parents and masters are required to see their children know the principles of religion and the laws of the commonwealth.

  • Old deluder satan act

    requires towns with at least 50 house holds to hire a schoolmaster to teach children to read and write.

  • The Academy

    The Academy and College of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, is considered by many to have been the first American academy.
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    Young Nation period

  • Common School

    Elementary school in the 19TH century that was free and public.

  • Massachusetts Compulsory Attendence Law

    Five states require students to begin school at age 5, 32 mandate school attendance at age 6, and a small number allow children to wait until reaching 8 years old.

  • Morrill Act of 1862

    Land grant college act that gave land to states to develop colleges

  • Second Morrill Act

    This act required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color.
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    Progressive Period

  • College Board formed

    College Board is an American privatenon-profit organization that was formed in December 1900 as the College Entrance Examination Board to expand access to higher education.

  • Beginning of the progressive movement

    The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government.

  • seven cardinal principicels of secondary education

    The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education are a set of seven guiding tenants established by the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education in 1918.

  • Star spangled Banner

    The original Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the song that would become our national anthem, is among the most treasured artifacts in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

  • yellow school bus

    The color is now officially known in Canada and the U.S. as National School Bus Glossy Yellow and was originally called National School Bus Chrome. The pigment used for this color was, for a long time, the lead-containing chrome yellow.
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    Postwar Period

  • Sputnik

    each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.

  • the National Defense Education Act

    the federal legislation passed providing aid to education in the United States at all levels, public and private.

  • NASA

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

  • Elementary and secondary education act 1965

    its the most expansive federal education bill ever passed. It is significant to note the bill was enacted less than three months after it was introduced.

  • Title IX

    Title IX is a portion of the United States Education Amendments of 1972, co-authored and introduced by Senator Birch Bayh.

  • Public Law 94-142

    the landmark federal legislation pertaining to the education of children with disabilities. The law guaranteed a “free, appropriate public education” to all children and young adults aged 3–21.
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    Modern day Period

  • A Nation at Risk

    Its publication is considered a landmark event in modern American educational history.

  • A Nation Prepared

    the Report of the Task Force on Teaching as a Profession, Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy.

  • GOALS 2000

    Many of these goals were based on the principles of outcomes-based education, and not all of the goals were attained by the year 2000 as was intended.

  • IDEA Reauthorization

    The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is the primary federal program that authorizes state and local aid for special education and related services for children with disabilities.