history of education timeline

  • Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

    Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
    Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States
  • booker t. washington

    booker t. washington
    Booker T. Washington was a famous African American educator and speaker. He founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now Tuskegee University, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
  • Dick and jane

    Dick and jane
    Dick and Jane are the main characters in a book written by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp and published by Scott Foresman, that were used to teach children to read from the 1930s through to the 1970s
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act
    Civil rights and US labor law legislation in the United States outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • Project Head Start

    Project Head Start
    Head Start is a program of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families.
  • No child left behind act

    No child left behind act
    supported standards-based education reform based on that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education. The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills. To receive federal school funding, states had to give these assessments to all students at select grade levels.