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Established to educate African Americans in the U.S.
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Invented Kindergarten, believed teachers played an important role in a child’s development, and believed children learned through playing
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Opened the first English-speaking kindergarten in Boston
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Explained the importance of the first five years and psychoanalysis
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Established a laboratory school in Chicago, and becomes father of Progressive Movement in American education
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Becomes the Association for Childhood Education, moving into elementary education
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Published child development works on gender, sex role, and moral developments
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Bill passed providing education for special needs children in “least restrictive environment”
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Established a National Academy and a voluntary accreditation system for centers to improve children’s lives
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In the U.S. this legislation was passed