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1800-1850
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New York launches the Public School System
New York lesgisalature passes an act that allowed the establishment of a free school for the education of poor children. This is known as one of the first free public school systems in America. -
Connecticut Asylum for the Instruction for the Deaf
Connecticut Asylum at Hartford for the Instruction for the Deaf and Blind opens. This becomes the first permanent school foor the deaf in the United States.The school's cofounders were Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. -
English High School of Boston.
The first free High School in the US was created in 1821 in Boston, Massachusetts. Before this High School opened, most people only recieved education though grammar school, if at all. -
Horacce Mann becomes secretary of new Mass. Board of Education.
Horace Mann becomes head of the newly formed Massachusetts State Board of Education. Mann is responsible for revolutionizing the American Education system.Some of his beliefs are that education should be paid for and controlled by the public as well as that students should be taught by well trained teachers. -
First United States Reform School Opens
Massachusetts Reform School at Westboro opens. This is where children who have refused to attend school are sent. This starts the practice of sending disobedient children to reform schools like military school. This school later changed location and name to Lyman School for Boys, which remained open until the nineteen-seventies. -
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1850-1900
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Children Required by Law to Attend School
Massachusetts passes the first ever law requiring children to attend school. It was first passed in order to ensure that the children of immigrants would be educated and would hopefully become "civilized," but it set in path the right and responsibility of education for every US citizen. -
Ashmun Institue Opens
Now Lincoln University, Ashmun was the first school opened to teach the arts and sciences to African-American youths. -
Gallaudet University Opens
The son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, or the co-founder of the first permanent school for the deaf, opens the first United Sates college dedicated to teaching the deaf. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson Decision
With the decison of the Supreme Court in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case being that railroad cars and other public property must be "seperate but equal", the Supreme Court ruled that segregation is legal. With this ruling, the South passed laws that required segregation in education. -
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1900-1950
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SAT Begins
The Scholastic Apittude Test (SAT) is first administered. -
IQ Scale is Developed
David Wechsler developed the Wechsler Adult Intelligence. It introduced the concept of IQ Deviation, which calculates the deviation scores based on how far participant's core deviates from the average. -
G.I. Bill of Rights
At the end of World War Two, thouands of working class men receved scholarships that were to be used for the men to attend college. This is the first time scholarships were given out in the first time in US history. -
Baby Boomers
Kathleen Casey Kirschling is born at midnight on Janurary 1, 1946. She became the first of the baby boomers, the generation that caused massive populationn growth and educational change in American schools. -
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1950-2000
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Brown vs. Board of Education
The Supreme Court rules that segregated schools are inherently unequal. Segregation in schools is to be abolished from this point on. -
Little Rock
Nine African-American school students started at the previously all white Central High School in Little Rock. This followed the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that ruled against segregation. Central High School became the first desegregated school in America. -
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2000-2005
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2005-2010
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2010-2015
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Too Much Testing Movement
Obama joins the Too Much testing Movement. The movement's followers belive that testing should take up no more than two percent of class time. -
Obama labels mass shootings at schools "routine".
After mass shootings in schools began at Columbine High School in 1999, numerous similar tragedies have occurred. People are questioning if there are ways to make schools safer in hopes of stoppng tragedies like at Santa Monica College, Marysville Pitchuck High School, and Sandy Hook Elementary. -
Two Years of Community College Free
Obama announces plans for two free years of community college for all American students, but with so much conflict with the controlling Republicans in the House and Senate, the plans will not be implemented soon. -
New England Asylum for the Blind Opens
Now called Perkins School for the Blind, the New England Asylum for the Blind in Massachusetts was the first school in the Uniited States opened to serve children with visual disabilities.
