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Concerned that parents were not following the first law requiring them to teach their children to read and write this new law was passed. This law required a town to hire someone to teach the children to write and read when the town reached 50 households and build a grammar school when it reached 100 households. If they failed to follow this law they would be fined 5 pounds paid to the next town that preformed the services.
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The blackboard was invented by James Pillans and for the first time gave teachers a way to visual display material to the whole classroom at once. It started to be used in the United States in 1809. Around the time frame of 1935-40 the term chalkboard started to replace the term blackboard in the United States. http://www.whoinventedit.net/who-invented-the-chalkboard.html http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/evolving_classroom/blackboards.html
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The First English High School was established to offer a curriculum for boys who were not going to go to Harvard. It had a ciriculm that placed emphasis on subjects that would allow its students to be successful in the areas of industry and commerce.
(First Public shool was in http://www.englishhs.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=75360&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=129652&hideMenu=1 -
This historical case heard by the United States Supreme court ruled that segregation in public schools was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html
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This act was passed to provide federal assistant to students to attended postsecondary education and strengthen the resources of our colleges and universities.
http://www.pellinstitute.org/downloads/trio_clearinghouse-The%20Early%20History%20of%20the%20Higher%20Education%20Act%20of%201965.pdf
