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The History of American Education

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    1700-Present Day

  • Ben Franklin forms American Philosophical Society

    Brings ideas of European Enlightenment to AMerica. Emphasizes secularism, science, human reason. Greatly influences thinking of Franklin,Jefferson.

  • Establishment of first English Academy in Philadelphia (UPENN)

    by Ben Franklin, Becomes U Penn

  • Emile. ou l'education- published

    Rousseau's book. Influneces Dewey

  • Revolutionary War Starts

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Two-Track Educational System

    Proposed by Thomas Jefferson, two tracks for "the laboring and the learned."

  • Treaty Of Paris

    Revolutionary War Ends

  • A Grammatical Institute of the English Language (Blue-Backed Speller)

    written by Noah Webster, he began writing it in 1783

  • Northwest Ordinance

    Enacted by the Confederation Congress, stipulates that a section of land in any new town should be set aside for education

  • Young Ladies Acadwemy Opens

    Opens in Philadelphia, first academy in America for girls

  • Ratification of US Constitution

  • The Bill of Rights

    passed by congress

  • Connectivut Asylum at Hartford for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons opens

  • First Public School Opens in Boston

    Boston English High School

  • Catherine Beecher founds the Hartford Female Seminary

    private school for girls in Hartford

  • MA passes law requiring large towns have public schools open to all

  • McFuggey's reader published

  • Horace Mann becomes Secretary of MA BOE

  • African Institue opens (Cheyney University)

    first black insitution of higher learning

  • Normal Schools open in MA

  • MA enacts first mandatory attendance law

  • Boston Public Library Opens to public

  • First Kindergarten in US

  • National Teachers Association (NEA) founded

  • Darwin's "The Origin of Species

  • Civil War begins

  • Land Grant Act (First Morrill Act)

    donates public lands to states for colleges

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Ammendment, Slavery Ablolished

  • 14th Ammendment, equal protection under law to all

  • National Department of Ed is created

  • Peabody Education Fund

    George Peabody offers $2 million to souther states

  • Civil Rights Act passed in 75', unconcstitutional until now

    bans segretation

  • Committee of Ten

    recommends a college oriented high school curriculum

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    "seperate but equal"

  • The Experimental Psychology and Psycholopatholgy of Animals

    Paper talks about clasical conditioning and conditioned reflex, read at 14th International Medical Congress

  • Educational Psychology: The Psychology of Learning

    Edward Lee Thorndike

  • Dewey's work published

    Democracy and Education. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

  • WWI

  • ALL STATES make attendance mandatory

  • Progressive Education Association founded

  • 19th Amendment ratified

  • First SAT

  • Great Depression

  • Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove (California) School District

    1st successful school desegregation

  • IQ tests started

  • WWII

  • National School Lunch Act

    funded lunches

  • Brown v. Board. of Education of Topeka

  • Little Rock 9

  • NDEA

  • 1st ACT test

  • Civil Rights Act becomes law

  • Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

  • Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 becomes law

  • Equal Educational Opportunities Act

  • A Nation at Risk

  • The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990

  • Massachusetts Education Reform Act

  • No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)

  • American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009