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US Supreme Court Rules out New York's Regent Prayer
States that the Regent Prayer is a violation of the 1st Amendment and specifies that it is to be done in the state at the beginning of each school day. -
US Supreme Court rules out biblical passages
Reaffirming Engel vs Vitale, the Supreme Court rules that "no state law or school board may require that passages from the Bible be read or that the Lord's Prayer be recited in the public schools . . . even if individual students may be excused from attending or participating . . ." -
Project Head Start
An education program for children who are in pre-school that are of low-income families and begins as an eight-week summer program. It was also for the "War on Poverty." -
Higher Education Act
Act to increase federal aid to higher education and provides for scholarships, student loans, and establishes a National Teachers Corps. -
The Equality of Educational Opportunity Study
States that African American children benefit from attending integrated schools sets the stage for school "busing" to achieve desegregation. -
Toward a Theory of Instruction
Jerome Bruner's publication that brought up his views on helping to popularize the cognitive learning theory as an alternative to behaviorism. -
Epperson et al. v. Arkansas (The Monkey Trial) Revisted
Arkansas' law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in a public school or university is ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court. -
Diana v. California State Board
A law requiring that children referred for possible special education placement be tested in their primary language. -
Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v. Pennsylvania
Students with mental retardation are entitled to a free public education by the federal courts. -
The e-Book.
Michael Hart, founder of Project Guttenberg, created a book publication in digital form.
