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The Massachusetts Law of 1647 "Old Deluder Satan Act"
1647 Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law requiring towns of a certain size should establish a primary school and towns of larger size establish a grammar school too. -
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Common School Movement
Hoarce Mann was the leader, a Whig politician. 1837 became the first Secretary of the State Board of Education of Massachusetts. He promoted Common Schools while in this position. -
Watson v. City of Cambridge
"The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a child who was "weak in mind" and could not benefit from instruction, was troublesome to other children, and was unable to take "ordinary, decent, physical care of himself" could be expelled from public school (Rogers, Rogers & Yell, 1998). " -
Committee of 10
Propose to NEA new structure for HS curriculum -
Plessy v Ferguson
Separate but equal -
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Progressive Movement
John Dewey fought for child-centered learning and Edward L. Thorndike argued for administrative control. Introduction of the Comprehensive High School with grade tracking curriculum. -
Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education issued to the NEA. These stated the administrative progressive position on education and are considered the keystone of the movement. -
The first White House Conference on Children of 1910
One of the main goals for this first conference was to "define and establish remedial programs for children with disabilities or special needs." (Rogers, Rogers & Yell) -
All states pass Compulsory Attendance laws
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First Parent Advocacy Group is formed
The Cuyahoga County Ohio Council for the Retarded Child consisted initially of five mothers of children with mental retardation who banded together to protest the exclusion of their children from school (Levine & Wexler, 1981; A. P. Turnbull & H. R. Turnbull, 1990; Winzer, 1993). This protest resulted in the establishment of a special class for the children, sponsored by the parents themselves (Rogers, Rogers & Yell). -
Brown v. Board of Education
The constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law found in the Fourteenth Amendment. This amendment stipulates that the states may not deny any person within its jurisdiction equal protection under the law. If states have undertaken to provide an education to its citizenry, then they must do so for all its citizens (Rogers, Rogers & Yell). -
Department of Public Welfare v. Haas,
The Supreme Court of Illinois, in Department of Public Welfare v. Haas, held that the state's existing compulsory attendance legislation did not require the state to provide a free public education for the "feeble minded" or children who were "mentally deficient" and who, because of their limited intelligence, were unable to reap the benefits of a good education. (Rogers, Rogers & Yell) -
Expansion of Teaching in the Education of Mentally Retarded Children Act of 1958
Congress appropriated funds for the training of teachers of children with mental retardation -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act funds to students with disabilities
additional federal funds were provided to improve the education of certain categories of students, including those with disabilities. -
North Carolina exclusion law
The State of North Carolina made it a crime for parents to persist in forcing the attendance of a child with disabilities after exclusion from public school (Rogers, Rogers & Yell). -
The Education for the Handicapped Act
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Mills v. Board of Education
The birth of Due Process and Procedural Safeguards -
Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens [PARC] v. Pennsylvania
...The state was delaying or ignoring its constitutional obligations to provide a publicly supported education for these students, thus violating state statutes and the students' rights under the Equal Protection of the Laws clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Rogers, Rogers & Yell). -
Section 504 of the Rehabilation Act of 1973
It was not clear, however, what protections were actually extended to persons with disabilities through the statute. Many believed that the purpose of 504 was merely to correct problems in the rehabilitation of persons with disabilities, while others understood the law to be an extension of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Because Congress failed to include any means of eliminating discrimination based on disability in Section 504 (Rogers, Rogers & Yell). -
P.L. 94-142 The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975
provided federal funding to states to assist them in educating students with disabilities. States receiving federal funding were required to submit a state plan to the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. The plan was to describe the state's policies and procedures to educate students with disabilities in accordance with the procedures contained in the EAHCA. If the plan was approved by the bureau, the state was obligated to guarantee a free appropriate public education -
Section 504 regulations are issued
The primary purpose of Section 504 was to prohibit discrimination against a person with a disability by any agency receiving federal funds (Rogers, Rogers & Yell). -
P.L 94-142 Takes Effect
2 years after it was passed in Congress, federal regulations to implement EAHCA start -
A Nation at Risk
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IDEA
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IDEA amended and reauthorized
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NCLB