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Every town of at least 50 people get one schoolmaster to teach the children how to read and write. Every town of at least 100 people should have a Latin schoolmaster who prepares students to attend Harvard.
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Benjamin Franklin helps create the English Academy, which is located in Philadelphia. The curriculum includes history, geography, navigation, surveying, and teaches classical language.
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Located in Philadelphia and becomes the first school for females in the 13 colonies.
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This is the first permanent school for the deaf in the US. The school's co-founders are Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. Eventually, Edward Miner Gallaudet helps to start Gallaudet University which is the first college specifically for deaf students.
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The Perkins School for the Blind opens in Massachusetts. It eventually becomes the first school in the US for children with visual disabilities.
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The African Institute opens in Cheyney, Pennsylvania and is the oldest school of higher learning for African Americans.
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In this legal case, the Massachusetts Supreme Court rules that any Boston Public School can deny any enrollment of an African American child. This is due to segregated, "whites-only" schools.
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This is the first state university to admit both men and women on an equal basis.
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This college was founded in Nashville and was the first medical school in the south for African Americans.
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The first ever public community college in the United States was the Joliet Junior College which was located in Joliet, Illinois.
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