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In 1642 parents were required to teach their children because it was thought that illiterate people were easy targets for Satan.
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America's earliest law relating to school required towns of 50 or more families to have a primary school teacher and towns of 100 or more to have a Latin teacher
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The ordinance required Midwestern territories to set aside a section of land for education purposes.
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The Northeast was moving toward organized schools that were free and available to all.
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The Massachusetts and Great Courts required all cities and towns to have school committees.
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High schools now publicly funded by communities.
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First state board of education was started, Horace Mann being the secretary.
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Rooms were split based on age and academic abailities rather than everyone being in a one-room schoolhouse.
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Law that made elementary education free to everyone between ages of four and twenty.
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Lincoln signed the Act which donated public lands for the use of land-grant colleges.
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Abraham Lincoln emancipated slaves and abolished slavery, but did not ensure education equal or adequate to that of the white people.
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Supreme Court case which affirmed the principle that political equality did not guarantee social equality.
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Changed the future of teaching to more of a profession and teachers as a political force.
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Ella Flagg Young became the first female superintendent in American schools, appointed at the Chicago Public Schools.
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In the 1930s, normal schools became state teachers colleges and are now state colleges or universitites.
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Act which mandated the teaching of Indian history and culture in schools.
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Prohibited school segregation on the basis of race.
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President Johnson created this law to set up Head Start, Title I, and other prorams.
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Title IX ensured that "no person in the US shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any educational programs or activity receiving federal financial assistance." (U.S. Dept. of Education, 1972 preamble)
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Aimed to level the playing field for young women by giving them schools for model programs, traning, and research.
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Act that gave tribes the power to run their own schools.
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