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Masschusetts mandates parents to educate children
Fearing the devil, Massachusetts Puritans insist the illiterate becme educated. -
Ecole Normale
The French develop a school of higher learning to train teachers, partly due in relation to the period of "Enlightenment" -
Horace Mann
Horace Mann born today. He would become the first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. His incite into the development of education for all humans was beyond his time. -
First Organized School Systems
Massachusetts and Connectict, organize the first school districts. -
Morrill Act of 1862
President Lincoln signs the Morrill Acit, which gave States and Territories land to began Collegs. 30,000 acres were granted to each Representive whose State remained in the Union. Introduced by Justin Morrill or Vermont. Later, the Hatch Act would help set up experimental farms to help in farm and agricutlure research. -
Carlisle Indian School
Richard Pratt begins a new program in Charlisle Pennsylvania, in which Native American children will have their culture eradicated by immersing them in white culture. Sometimes forcibly. -
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Progressive Education
A movement of schooling concepts based on a social, psycholgical, hands-on, uniting the vocational and academic worlds. Still considered today an optional choice to 'No child ldft behind'. -
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Plessy v Ferguson
Separate means equal. African Americans could receive an education, but it would be in separate facilities. It would take Brown v Board of Education to strike the 'separate yet equal' clause. -
Progrressive Education Association
The Progressive Education Association is founded this year. -
Brown v Board of Education Topeka Kansas
The context "Seperate yet not Equal" struck down from the Plessy v Ferguson law. What began as a fight for educational fairness, became the cause for civial rights. -
NDEA
President Eisenhower signs the National Defense Eduation Act. This Act, will help fund the math and sciences and foreign languages in hopes of keeping the Big Red Machine (Russia) from taking over the world. -
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ESEA
Article on the flexiblity of ESEA and NCLBA student of a one-room school house, President Johnson signs the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This act continues today to help the poor receive a fair education. Programs help Native Americans, migrants, and the poor as well as funding for better math and science and libraries. Children suffering from the cyclical dependency of poverty, would get help. -
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Free Schools
The idea that maybe the school rooom is not the best place to children to learn. Today, home schooling is a viable option as well as alternative, magnut and charter schools. -
Title IX
Everyone is entitled to participation in activities or resourses from an institution that has received funding from the Dept of Education, no matter what gender. Girls could now participate in sports! -
A Nation at Risk
The National Commision on Excellence in Education detirmines that the United States is falling behind other indutrialized nations in terms of acdemics. They suggestted measures needed to test and higher academic standards.
