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Old Deluder Satan Act
This act “required that every town of fifty or more families hire a primary school teacher for young children, and that towns of one hundred or more families appoint a Latin teacher to prepare promising young men for entrance into Harvard College, where they would be educated for the ministry.” This event influenced our profession’s history because it developed schools for children since it was “believed that illiterate people were easy targets for Satan.” -
Normal Schools
With Horace Mann’s help, normal schools were developed in France. Normal schools were “special state-funded post-secondary institutions.” They were named after Ecole Normale. The first normal school was founded in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1839.” This event influenced our profession’s history because normal schools were “a model for the training of elementary teachers. Normal schools allowed teachers to have a post-secondary education. -
Women Began Teaching
Women were finally being allowed to teach in classrooms. This event influenced our profession's history because previously only men were allowed to teach. Schools changed significantly when women began teaching. Male teachers were more focused on other academics and discipline whereas the women teachers were more nurturing towards the children's social and emotional overall well-being. -
Massachusetts Board of Edcuation *(Horace Mann)
Horace Mann was the forst secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. He also was a U.S. congressman and the president of Antioch College. This event influenced out profession's history because "Mann committed himself to developing education's 'faculties' and 'mighty energies,' working on everything from school curricula to the buildings themselves and to the education of the teachers who would staff them." -
Morrill Act
The act that provided the land for land-grant colleges to be developed. This event influenced our profession's history because it allowed the first colleges to be developed and it allowed for research about agricultural improvements to be conducted on experiemental farms. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The court case that stated people of different skin colors are "separate, but equal." This event influenced our profession's history by having schools be "separate, but equal." There were African American schools and white schools. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Race segregation in schools is now banned. This event influenced our profession's history by allowing African Americans and whites to go to the same schools. Race segregation is schools was now banned. -
Title IX
Title IX is part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1972. It was developed in order to stop the discrimination of women in sports and other academic subjects. This event influenced our profession's history because it ensured "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any educational programs or activity receiving federal financial assistance (1972 preamble)." -
Lau v. Nichols
This court case proved that children from different countries, such as China in this case, were being discriminated against. They were being segregated and were not receiving “adequate help in learning English, nor, in general, an education equal to that of the English-speaking children in the city’s schools.” This event influenced our profession’s history by making schools responsible to for giving all students an equal education. This case made sure that schools did not discriminate. -
No Chld Left Behind Act
The act that provides funding for children from low-income families to get an equal and quality education. This event influenced our profession's history by providing a way for children from low-income families to attend schools.
