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The Boston Latin School in Boston, Massachusetts was the first public school established in what would be the United States. This was a boys-only school, strictly for college preparation. It taught Latin and Greek and focused on humanities. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/apr23/first-public-school-america/#:~:text=Apr%2023%2C%201635%20CE%3A%20First%20Public%20School%20in%20America,-6%20%2D%2012%2B&text=On%20April%2023%2C%201635%2C%20the,Philemon%20Pormont%2C%20a%20Puritan%20settler.
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Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts was the first institution of higher education in America. It was founded on October 28, 1636, and would become the most prestigious universities in the world.
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In 1787, John Poor established the first the Young Ladies’ Academy of Philadelphia which would become the first chartered female academy in the United States five years later. This is the first time females were given the true opportunity to receive the same education as males. https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/womens-education/
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On April 15, 1817, in Hartford, Connecticut The American School for the Deaf was founded. This was the first permanent school created for the deaf.
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The English Classical School opened in 1821 with 101 male students in Boston. This was America’s first high school of any kind. https://thebronxchronicle.com/2017/05/25/first-public-high-school-english-classical-school/
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Horace Mann accepts the
position of First Secretary of the State Board of
Education in Massachusetts in 1837. He used this position to create the Common School Movement which ensured that every child could receive a basic education funded by local taxes. His influence soon spread beyond Massachusetts as more states took up the idea of universal schooling.
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In 1852, Massachusetts became the first state to enact a compulsory education law. This required every city to offer a primary school. Parents who refused to send their children to school were fined and sometimes even stripped of their parental rights. https://www.findlaw.com/education/education-options/compulsory-education-laws-background.html
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Title IX in the Education Act was passed in 1972 by Richard Nixon. It states that "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2l4EZwevz4&feature=emb_imp_woyt
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In 1972, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act was passed. This required all schools receiving federal funding to provide handicapped children equal access to education and be placed in the least restrictive educational environment possible. http://commons.trincoll.edu/edreform/2012/05/the-education-for-all-handicapped-children-act-a-faltering-step-towards-integration/#:~:text=However%2C%20in%201975%20this%20changed,least%20restrictive%20educational%20environment%20possible.
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The Head Start Program Performance Standards were originally published in 1975 after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared The War on Poverty in his State of the Union speech. Head Start was created to help preschool children that come from low-income families by providing them with a program that can meet their emotional, social, health, and psychological needs.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCMtXcgOEJI&feature=youtu.be
Source: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ohs/about/history-head-start
