History of Education

First school founded

1635

Boston, Massachusettes
All boys latin school

Harvard College opened

1636

Cambridge, Massachusettes

First public school founded

1821

Boston, Massachusettes
English-speaking high school

First private school founded

1823

Concord, Vermont

National Education Association founded

1857

Formerly National Teachers Association

Invention of typewriter

1867

Plessy v. Ferguson Act

1896

"separate but equal"

PTA created

1897

Parent-Teacher Association
Also referred to as PTO (Parent-Teacher Organization)

SAT first administered

1926

Fair-Labor Act

1938

limits amount of jobs children can have

First electronic computer

1946

School lunch Act

1946

National program: provided low-cost lunches to low-income students

First administration of ACT test

1959

Founding of Association for children with learning disabilities

1964

Civil Rights Act - passing

1964

Ended segregation in schools

Higher Education Act and Head Start Program

1965

Passage of Equal Educational Opportunities Act

1974

Education for ALL handicapped children accepted

1975

Internet invented

1989

Improving America's Schools Act

1994

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No Child Left Behind

2001

Enactment of Every Student Succeeds

2015

Endrew F. v. Douglas decision

2017

Requires ALL schools to offer eligible students IEP's (Individualized Education Plan)
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COVID-19

2020

All school's closed temporarily

Chat GPT released

2022