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Developed in Ancient Egypt. Students learned logographic system of cuneiform script and took place in an open field.
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The first university was the University of Bologna. It is the oldest university and offering only doctoral degrees.
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Boston Latin School was the first public all boys school. First public school and oldest existing school in the United States.
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First Catholic school was St. Mary's School in Philadelphia. While religious congregations provided the backbone for U.S. Catholic schooling, diocesan clergy also responded generously to God's call to teach
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First school for women was Wesleyan College in Georgia. Became the first women's college in the world.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/history-womens-colleges/#:~:text=and%20Title%20IX.-,You%20can%20find%20her%20work%20in%20South%20Florida%20Gay,MSN%20Money%2C%20Deb...&text=Before%20the%20rise%20of%20women's,women's%20college%20in%20the%20world. -
Fire alarms were first introduced in schools in 1950 because of devastating school fires.
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Iowa became the first state to desperate schools. These lawsuits were combined into the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that outlawed segregation in schools.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/articles-and-essays/school-segregation-and-integration/#:~:text=These%20lawsuits%20were%20combined%20into,segregation%20in%20schools%20in%201954. -
Connecticut became the first sate to require calculators on mandated test. First calculator used in schools.
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The availability of he internet grew rapidly in late 1990s. Only 35% of public schools were wired.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/reference/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/internet-and-education#:~:text=The%20availability%20of%20the%20Internet,were%20connected%20to%20the%20Internet. -
No Child Left Behind Act was a law for K–12 education in the United States that held schools accountable for how kids learned and achieved.
https://www.understood.org/en/articles/no-child-left-behind-nclb-what-you-need-to-know