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Commen Schools
Common schools were funded by local property taxes, charged no tuition, were open to all white children. Beginning in the 1820s, Horace Mann, the "Great Equalizer", convinced a nation to create a system of common schools - good schools were good business and the future of the economy and the democracy depended upon providing a "common" education to all children, no matter where they were born or the whom. The Common School is the precursor to today's public school. * Date is not exact. -
The Feminization of Teaching
The Suffrage Movement established equality between men and women and allowed women to take up the position of teaching. This influenced our profession's history because women are able to take on the role of teaching without discrimination or being looked down upon. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The decision reverses Plessy v. Ferguson, ruling that separate is not equal, and outlaws segregation. The decision held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Although the decision did not succeed in fully desegregating public education in the United States, it put the Constitution on the side of racial equality -
Sputnik
The Soviets make history be being the first to launch a satellite into orbit, the Sputnik. More than $1 billion was poured into public schools for new science and math curriculums.
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The Elementary and Secondary Education Act
This law brought education to the forefront of the national assault on poverty and represented a landmark commitment to equal access to quality education. This is a program created by the United States Department of Education to distribute funding to schools and school districts with a high percentage of students from low-income families. -
Title lX
Title 9 stated that no person can be excluded from a school program on the basis of their sex. This gave rise to more women athletics and other opportunities which previously were not granted -
Individual with disability act
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children -
Nation at risk
A report commissioned in 1983 by the National Commission on Excellence in Education which suggested that the nation’s education system was not reaching the standards of excellence and rigor necessary. It also opined that other problems with the U.S. education system placed the nation at risk of falling well behind other industrialized nations. The “risk” in the title referred to the consequences of a failing education system to the economy. -
Invention of Google
The invention of Google has had a major impact on the world of education. It has changed how students learn and how teachers teach. Students no longer have to go to the library to search for information, because the answers are now available with a few clicks. Google and other technology are incorporated in the classroom each and every day. -
No Child left Behind act
This Act set new government test standards that students must reach or the school district may face federal assistance money. This program was set in to help disadvantaged students reach the same goals as advanced students. Some people believe teachers are now teaching to strictly meet those standards