Key Historical Events in Educational History

  • Common School Movement

    Common School Movement

    Horace Mann started a movement to bring about state-sponsored public education.
  • Brown V.S. Board of Education

    Brown V.S. Board of Education

    This is a movement that made it so children of all races could attend school together.
  • National Defense Education Act

    National Defense Education Act

    This was created in order to enhance and strengthen the American school system through funds.
  • Title IX

    Title IX

    Law that helps prohibit discrimination against students or employees based on either sex in a educational institution.
  • No Child Left Behind

    No Child Left Behind

    Act was passed in 2001 through Congress and became a law that was signed in 2002 by President George W. Bush. This act was made to help students improve and succeed by yearly standardized testing or assessments.