History of education

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  • Harvard collage

  • First school for the deaf established in Hartford, CT

  • Smith-Hughes Act

    provides federal funds for the teaching of agriculture

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    declares separate schools
    unconstitutional

  • USSR launches satellite Sputnik

    Americans fear they’re falling behind Soviets

  • Lemon v. Kurtzman,

    the U.S.
    Supreme Court finds that state aid
    to parochial schools constitutes
    impermissible entanglement
    between church and state

  • Education for All Handicapped Children Act

    mandates that
    schools provide special education
    services

  • National Commission on Excellence in Education.

    President Reagan establishes the
    National Commission on Excellence
    in Education. The Commission’s
    report, A Nation at Risk, calls for
    K-12 reform

  • Wallace v. Jaffree

    the Court finds that a state law allowing
    time in schools for meditation or
    voluntary prayer is unconstitutional

  • No Child Left Behind Act

    directs state testing in reading and
    mathematics and mandates federal
    reporting of student scores of low-
    income, race/ethnicity, disability,
    and limited English proficiency