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Old Delauder Satan Law
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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Blackboard (chalkboard) was invented
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 -
First English High School (Not Latin)
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 -
Brown v. Board of Education
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 -
Higher Education Act
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
