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Dame Schools
A Dame school was an early form of a private elementary school in English-speaking countries. They were usually taught by women and were often located in the home of the teacher. -
Latin Grammar Schools
The Latin school was the grammar school of 14th to 19th-century Europe, though the latter term was much more common in England. Emphasis was placed, as the name indicates, on learning to use Latin. The education given at Latin schools gave great emphasis to the complicated grammar of the Latin language, initially in its Medieval Latin form. -
McGuffey Readers
McGuffey Readers were a series of graded primers, including grade levels 1-6, widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and in homeschooling. -
Kindergarten
A kindergarten[1] is a preschool educational approach traditionally based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. The first such institutions were created in the late eighteenth century in Bavaria and Strasbourg to serve children both of whose parents worked out of the home. -
Progressive Education Association
The Progressive Movement promoted the idea that students should be encouraged to be independent thinkers, creative beings, and expressive about their feelings. This was a sharp contrast from prevalent educational approaches rooted in social efficiency in the early 1900s, particularly in the United States. Such approaches, which would be described several decades later by Callahan in "Education and the Myth of Efficiency" (1962), did not foster the importance of individualism, creativity... -
Boston English High School
The English High School of Boston, Massachusetts is one of the first public high schools in America, founded in 1821. Originally called The English Classical School, it was renamed The English High School upon its first relocation in 1824. -
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and it served as a model for some of the others. -
Young Ladies Academy
One of the most pivotal events in the history of women’s education was the opening of The Young Ladies Academy. The Young Ladies Academy opened in 1787 and was stated to be the first all female academy established in America. Male teachers taught reading, spelling, writing, math and geography. Less than a year after it opened the academy had enrolled almost one hundred girls. The Young Ladies Academy set an example for the many academies and seminaries that began to be opened in the late1700 -
African Institute
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is a pan-African network of centres of excellence for postgraduate education, research and outreach in mathematical sciences. -
New York State Asylum for Idiots
The Syracuse State School was a residential facility in Syracuse, New York for mentally disabled children and adults. Founded in 1851 in Albany, New York as the New York State Asylum for Idiots, acting upon a recommendation contained in the 1846 annual report of the New York State Asylum for Lunatics. The first director was Hervey B. Wilbur, a student of Edward Seguin (another of Seguin's students was Maria Montessori). -
Lincoln University
Lincoln University is a historically black university founded in 1866 by African-American veterans of the American Civil War and located in Jefferson City, Missouri. -
Howard University
Howard University (HU, The Mecca or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university in Washington, D.C. It is classified as a research university with high research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. -
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. -
Joliet Junior College
Joliet Junior College, a community college based in Joliet, Illinois, is the first public community college founded in the United States -
McCarver Elementary School
The first school designed to reduce racial isolation by offering a choice to parents was an elementary school in Tacoma, Washington, called McCarver