History of Education

  • First Public School

    First Public School
    The Boston Latin School was the first school in the United States. It was established in Boston, Massachusetts and is still functioning today.
  • Common School Movement

    Common School Movement
    This movement encourage that every child could receive education. This movement was started by Horace Movement who was secretary on the Massachusetts Board of Education.
  • Department of Education formed

    Department of Education formed
    This is the part of government that help with the nations education system. It main objective is collect information and statics from schools across the United State of America
  • Plessy Vs Ferguson

    Plessy Vs Ferguson
    This court made the state of Louisiana have "separate but equal" railroads cars. This then made southern states a law that required racial segregation in public schools .
  • Brown vs Education

    The Supreme Court agreed that segregated schools should be abolished. (https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/separate-but-not-equal-video)
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    Nine African-American students from Little Rock, Arkansas tried entering a perviously know white school after the Brown vs. Broad of Education Trial. The Governor of Arkansas called the Arkansas National Guard o try to stop the students from entering the school.
  • Elementary and Secondary Act

    The main purpose of this act was to help United States to find cities with low-income families. Title 1 was apart of this act, it point was to close the skills gap in reading, writing, and math
  • Title IX

    A. federal Law that prohibits any discrimination on the sex of a ceros in the education system. This law allowed women and girls to get the same education as a man
  • Milliken vs Bradley

    It was another court case in the education system. This case focus on the segregation between colored students in the inner city and white students from white suburban
  • No Child Left Behind Act

    No Child Left Behind Act
    This act established that a a school focus should be all of their students. But, they should also put in effort for the students group in special education, English-Language Learners, and poor children should have the same education as everyone else in the school.