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The printing press was invented to allow for easy and more efficient book copying.
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Harvard College became the institution of a higher education in the English colonies.
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The lending libraries were a way to improve the Americans education, they were able to take books and read them at their own paces, then return them when finished.
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Louis Braille was a blind frenchman who created his own way of communication with an embossed dot system that represent numbers, letters, punctuation and even whole words.
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The Father of American Christian education, Noah Webster created the first American dictionary and the rules to govern spelling, grammar and reading.
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To establish an effective school system, the department of education was created to collect information on schools and teachings that would allow them to figure out how to create the best school system.
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The Progressive Education Movement was started with John Locke and finished with John Dewey's idea that students and social beings and that needs to be taken into account when teaching them.
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The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.
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The U.S Supreme Court Case where the Court rule unanimously that racial segregation in public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment.
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Dr. Suess, other known as Theodor Geisel, wrote the cat in the hat as a response to an article in Life Magazine by John Henry titled, "Why do Students Bog Down on the First R?"
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The American College Testing Program was founded by Ted Maccarrel and Everett Franklin Lindguist, in which they believed that testing was necessary for college placement.
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President Lyndon Johnson's started the Head Start Program as a part of his great society campaign. It promoted healthy prenatal outcomes, healthy families, and even better infant and toddler development.
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This act was apart of President Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, it also represented the involvement of the Federal Government in public education.
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This is one of the education amendments of 1972, which protects individuals from discrimination of their sex.
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This is a nonprofit organization which the members included scholars, professors, students, critics, librarians, teachers and institutions who are all dedicated to the academic student of literature education.
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The American Language Program other known as the Boston Home Language, is a private program for students from ages 12-80 years old. The student will stay in the home of the teach for intensive English Language instruction.
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This approach states that there is no one way to teach all student. All children learn differently and educators must pick their theories and methods carefully.
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The No Child Left Behind act stated that Title I reading will being in an aid program for disadvantaged students. The act started to set standards for the teachers and the students to follow.
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Schools will compete for grants to support reform and innovation in the classroom.
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This is a clear set of goals for students to accomplish by the time they are ready to move up to the next level in their education.
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