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The Civil Rights Act Becomes a Law
The Civil Rights Act now enforces the prohibition of discrimination due to race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin. This law brings integration of currently segregated schools and places of education into question. -
Lyndon B Johnson Signs Immigration Act
Also known as the Hart Cellar Act, this movement paved the ways for many foreign students to enter into America and create a diverse education system. Many of these students were Asian and Hispanic. This Act abolished the "National Origins Formula." -
Higher Education Act
This Act allows students of low and middle class an equal ability to afford a higher education. This Act needs to be reauthorized by Congress every 5 years, and was created by Lyndon B Johnson as a way to promote growth and change for all that wanted an education. -
Equality of Educational Opportunity Study
This study pushed for African American students to start integrating into schools that had been strongly segregated. This study was authored by James S. Coleman, a sociologist from Columbia who originally published his research on the integration of multiracial students in a journal entitled, "The Coleman Report," where he explained the educational growth benefit of students to have racially diverse peers rather than peers of the same race and culture. -
Shooting at Kent State University
Also known as the Kent State Massacre, an anti-war protest occured on the Kent State University campus when the Ohio National Guard got involved and shot 4 students. This event is one of many historical tragedies that involve the nation and governments fight for security in an educational setting. -
Indian Education Act
The United States government recognized that he unique needs and accommodations of Native American and Alaskan Native students were not being met, bringing to life the "Indian Education Act." This Act helped aid students with unique cultures and language styles as well as aided with educational grants. -
Title IV of the Education Amendments of 1972
Title IV prohibits the the inability of a student who is enrolled in a federally funded school to participate in an activity or education due to sex. This is a big step for woman in the fight for equality, since from a young age woman were not allowed to participate in many educational activities, such as sports, with men. -
Judge Arthur Garrity Orders Busing of Students
The enforcement of integration was finally made by Federal Judge Wendell Arthur Garrity, Jr. He upheld the Constitution by creating a plan started in Massachusetts to have any school that had more than 50% dominantly white students be forced to balance with integration of more African Americans students. -
Education of All Handicapped Children Act
States were given until 1981 to fully incorporate this Act to guarantee that all children, despite any handicap, had an equal right to education as any other child. -
No Child Left Behind Act
This Act is now a law due to the signing of President Bush in 2002 and replaces the Bilingual Act of 1968. Referred to as NCLB, this law is important because it hold schools to a high standard and penalizes schools for failing to uphold student progress.
