Timeline: History Timeline | Timetoast

Period: 1635 to 1635

First public school opened in United States

https://www.americanboard.org/blog/11-facts-about-the-history-of-education-in-america/
Period: 1636 to 1636

Harvard Named as first college

https://www.leaderinme.org/blog/history-of-education-the-united-states-in-a-nutshell/
Period: 1787 to 1787

First Academy for Girls Established

https://www.leaderinme.org/blog/history-of-education-the-united-states-in-a-nutshell/
Period: 1801 to 1801

First Chalkboards arise in West Point Military Academy

https://chip.web.ischool.illinois.edu/people/projects/timeline/1801wojenski.htm#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20first%20schools,a%20large%20number%20of%20pupils.
Period: Apr 15, 1817 to Apr 15, 1817

First Deaf school established

https://connecticuthistory.org/the-american-school-for-the-deaf-today-in-history/
Period: 1866 to 1866

Susie Taylor opened a school for African American Children.

Before she opened a school for African American Children, she was a nurse for a colored infantry regiment for the army. In her off times of being a nurse, she taught the soldiers reading and writing. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/susie-taylor
Period: 1890 to 1890

College entrance exams proposed by Harvard President Charles Williams Eliot

https://www.nea.org/professional-excellence/student-engagement/tools-tips/history-standardized-testing-united-states#:~:text=1838%2D1890%20%7C%20Standardized%20Testing%20Arrives%20in%20American%20Schools
Period: 1900 to 1900

compulsory attendance ages 8-14

By 1900, 31 states had compulsory school attendance for students from ages 8-14. https://www.americanboard.org/blog/11-facts-about-the-history-of-education-in-america/
Period: 1918 to 1918

Every State required students to complete elementary school

https://www.americanboard.org/blog/11-facts-about-the-history-of-education-in-america/
1954

Outlawed Segregation in schools with Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/articles-and-essays/school-segregation-and-integration/
Period: 1957 to 1957

Little rock nine - Little Rock, Arkansas

The first nine African American students to be put in an all-white school. These students had been blocked from entering the school until the president sent federal troops to escort the students inside. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration
Period: 1970 to 1970

segregation in schools ended

https://www.leaderinme.org/blog/history-of-education-the-united-states-in-a-nutshell/
Period: 1970 to 1970

Technology started coming about in classrooms

https://www.leaderinme.org/blog/history-of-education-the-united-states-in-a-nutshell/
Period: 2002 to 2002

No child left behind act- every student must be tested in reading and math in grades 3-8 and once in highschool
Period: 2019 to 2019

Oregon teachers walking out of schools

They aren't asking for raises, they want more counselors, librarians, more funds for supplies, more nurses. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/08/us/oregon-teachers-walkout/index.html