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Massachusetts colony mandates that parents teach children principle of religion and laws of commonwealth
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Towns of 50 or more families are made to hire a primary school teacher and those of 100 or more are made to hire a Latin teacher.
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Midwestern territories are required to set aside a section of land for educational purposes. Led to the creation of land grant colleges that would educate teachers and skilled professionals
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The forerunner of the normal school that we know of today was created in France in 1794.
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The northwest began moving toward the establishment of free organized school systems for all children.
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The Masachusetts Great and General Court enacts a law requiring that all cities and towns elect a school committee to over see schools.
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Massachusetts Great and General Court expands publicaly funded education and requires communities to provide highschool education for children.
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Massachusetts Great and General Court creates first state boards of education. Horrace Mann is elected secretary to the board.
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The first normal school for teacher education is founded in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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One of the first female academies created. Ipswich along with Catharine Beecher's Hartford Female Seminary, prepared teachers for the workforce.
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reforms such as this started to pave the way for women's rights and equality both in and out of the work place.
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Boston's Quincy School was built. I provided a more efficient assignment of students to seperate rooms. the assignments were based on academic abilities according to age groups.
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The first womens rights convention was held
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Benjamin Roberts loses his case against the city of Boston. His daughter still has to walk to the black school she is assigned to instead of one of the five much closer white schools.
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A year after the Roberts case, integration of blacks into public schools begins.
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The U.S. Civil war breaks out, removing men from their daily lives and placing them on the battlefield. Women are left to become teachers in a once male dominated profession.
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Abraham Lincoln emancipated slaves. Shortly after the Boston school with help fro outside patrons set up a school for balck children.
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By the 1870's the percentage of blacks enrolled in schools exceeded that of the whites.
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Native American children are removed from their cultures and placed into schools to learn and eventually become forcefully assimilated into white culture.
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The Industrial Revolution andthe creation of steamships made it possible for people to travel great distances. A wave of immigration hit the United States that lasted till the 1920's. Diversification was brought to the American society. Education was provided for the children of these familes.
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John dewey began a progressive education movement that erged schools to focus more on the individuality of the child. this lasted into the 1940's
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The "seperate but equal"sentiment is brought forth with this case.
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The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. The vote changed the lives of American women. Female teachers (and nonteachers) began receiving better pay and working conditions.
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Some of the first intelligence testing is started.
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The "seperate but equal"sentiment is thrown out and the desegregation of schools begins.
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In the 1960's the Education for All Handicapped Children Act was passed and teachers btogan to think about their students individual needs.
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Economic Opportunity Act along with ESEA helped to bring compensatory education to poor families.
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President Johnson signs into law the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that created programs such as Head Start and Title I. It also included funding for Indian education.
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The forced assimilation that had been taking place in Indian schools was now expossed along with horrible effects it had on Native American education.
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Ivan illach pioneered the deschooling movement suggesting that for some there are alternatives to school. The idea of humanistic education is brought to the forefront.
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Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. takes the desegregation of Boston public schools into his own hands.
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The U.S. begins to fall behind other nations in schooling and a standards movement is started with hopes omaking progress in improving the academic abilities and raising the educational of schools in the United States.
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President Bush enacts the No Child Left Behind Act as part of the Standards Movement. The Act required statewide reading and math testing, reporting of school performance to the public, sanctions for yearly progress that was not achieved and even testing of prospective teachers all in an attempt to raise the standards of education and leave no child behind in the progression of education.
