History of US Education Timeline

By drewdeck

  • First Latin grammar school in US opens

    Location: Boston, Massachusetts

  • Harvard University is created

  • First publicly supported library created

    Charles Town, SC

  • Thomas Jefferson proposes two track educational system

    One track for laborers and one track for the educated

  • Young Ladies Academy opens

    Young Ladies Academy in Philadelphia becomes the first American academy for girls

  • Bill of Rights passed

    Makes education the responsibility of the state and not the federal government

  • First public high school opens

    Boston, Massachusetts

  • Mount Holyoke Female Seminary opens

    First US college for women

  • First state funded school for teacher education opens

    Lexington, Ma

  • Bible riots

  • Boston Public Library opens

    First free public library in US

  • Comumbia Istitute for deaf and dumb and blind is authorized to award college degrees

    This becomes the world's first college for people with disabilities

  • Department of Education created

  • First Ed Phych textbook published

    Louisa Hopkins

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Upholds seperate but equaal

  • First American Montessori school is created

    Tarrytown, NY

  • Acheivement tests are used on a large scale for the first time

    New York City, NY

  • Psychology of Education: The Psychology of Learning is published

    By Edward Thorndike

  • American Federation of Teachers founded

  • First Large scale IQ testing of adults takes place

    Us WWI recruits

  • All US states passed mandatory school attendance laws

  • Tennessee vs John Scopes

    Scopes is convicted for teaching evolution

  • SATs introduced

    Scholastic aptitude tests is administered for the first time

  • GED established

    General Equivalency Diploma

  • "Science and Human Behavior" published

    B.F. Skinner pushes operant conditioning

  • Brown vs Board of Education

  • Little Rock 9

    Federal Troops enforce the integration at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas

  • ACT first administered

  • "Developmental Psychology of Jean Piaget" is published by John Flavell

  • Elementary and secondary education act is enacted

    Seeks to improve education standards in low income areas

  • "Toward a theory of Instruction" published

    Writtem by Jerome Bruner "Toward a theory of Instruction" introduces cognitive learning

  • US supreme court rules that forbiding the teaching of evolution is unconstitutional

  • Herbert H Krohl's "The Open Classroom"

    Promotes open education

  • Title IX enacted

    Prevents discrimination for educational programs which receive federal funding

  • US department of education becomes cabinet position

  • US Board of Education vs Pico

    Supreme court rules schools cannot remove books from library due to offensive content

  • Supreme court invalidates "Creationism Act"

    Violates the first amendment

  • "A Nation at Risk" published

    Calls for major educational reform

  • Tim Berners-Lee creates internet

  • Americans with disabilities act

    States that students with disabilities can't be discriminated against

  • First charter school created

    City Acedemic High School located in Michigan

  • Columbine

    2 students commit shooting spree at school killed 15

  • US supreme court rules that voucher programs aren't unconstitutional

    They don't violate the first amendment

  • No Child Left Behind goes into effect