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The first free school to open up
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Harvard was one of the first colleges to open up and is still open today
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the Massachusetts General Court passed the first education law. It required parents to make sure that their kiddies could read and understand "the principles of religion and the laws of the Commonwealth.
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The first school book to be used in classes
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Salem College is established as the first ever liberal arts college for women that has a current enrollment of about 1100
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James Pillans invented the modern blackboard by hanging a big slab of slate on the classroom wall.
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The first government-owned/operated public high school opened in Boston, MA with the creative name of the Boston English High School.
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Mount Holyoke Female Seminary opened up as the first college for women in the U.S. Up till this point, higher education had been pretty much reserved for white men
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The battle for effective schooling continued. Now there was a need to institutionalize, so we see the formation of the Department of Education.
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Indianola Junior High School opened, which made it the first junior high school in the U.S.
