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Requires that parents ensure their children know the principles of religion and commonwealth. Teaches children the ways of the world not just their ways.
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This marked the community's support of the public school systems being started -
This gave us freedom from Great Britain allowing us to start our own schools.
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Jefferson wrote articles about what he believed the schools should be like vs what they are and it changed the way people looked at schools. Jefferson believed educating people was a good way to establish an organized society, and also felt schools should be paid for by the general public, so less wealthy people could obtain student membership as well.
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It's not so much the school itself that is important but the principles undergirding its charter helped lay the foundation for the American system of public higher education.
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The Bill of Rights set the bar for education to become a function of the state rather than the federal government.
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When he was elected to act as Secretary of the newly-created Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837, he used his position to enact major educational reform. He spearheaded the Common School Movement, ensuring that every child could receive a basic education funded by local taxes.
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Elizabeth is the first woman to graduate from college and marks a new era where women start gaining more rights.
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Lincoln University was the nation's first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU). This changed the way people looked at black colleges and universities and made them think twice about why they believed what they did. More than what it made people think is what it represented for our Nation.
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The boy scouts allow boys to learn skills that they have to know it also gives them a sense of belonging and gives them somewhere to be themselves. -
Just as it does for the boy scout the girl scouts learn life skills and gain a place to belong. -
This gives the teachers a place to come to get help and support if they are struggling. It also gives them other teachers to talk about what their teaching and to help learn new techniques for teaching.
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This lead to schools being shut down due to lack of pay and the children were having to start working to earn money for their families so there were very few children going to school and they saw no point in continuing to keep them open. Shutting down the schools kept the teachers from working and getting paid so they then had to work in factories as well.
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It was the first Supreme Court case incorporating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment as binding upon the states through the government. Everson marked a turning point in the interpretation and application of disestablishment law in the modern era.
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The ACT offers a college admissions test, college course placement, and a career planning component for one modest fee. And you can make yourself visible to colleges and scholarship agencies across the country by taking the ACT. The first ACT led the way for it to evolve and help all students get into college to get degrees so they can work and push technology even more. -
She was the first black girl to go to a white school. She had struggles but pulled through and changed the way people thought of segregation in schools at least a little
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When he was in office he put his support behind the new federally subsidized school lunch program, and, over the course of his fourteen years in Congress, he had proposed bills to provide grants for school construction, instructional materials, and an array of auxiliary services.
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Project Head Start, launched as an eight-week summer program by the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1965, was designed to help break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs.
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This marks the beginning of the influence of technology in schools. With computer calculators in schools, the next thing they'll have is computers and they'll keep evolving and becoming more and more technologically based. -
Reagon made a report recommending greater emphasis on basic subjects such as math and English, more rigorous and measurable standards, higher expectations for student performance and conduct, lengthening the school year, and improving teacher quality through, for example, increasing standards for teacher training programs.
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They set the mark that schools could learn and teach just as much online as they could in person giving people more flexibility to do what they needed while going to school. Setting the basis for where we are today.
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The major focus of No Child Left Behind is to close student achievement gaps by providing all children with a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education. Helping all students learn to the same level of education and ensuring that they all learn.
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Donald Trump names billionaire and school-choice advocate Betsy DeVos Secretary of Education. (oversees the management and distribution of the federal budget for education initiatives.) DeVos is known for her support for school choice, school voucher programs, and charter schools. ... She has advocated for the Detroit charter school system and she is a former member of the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education.
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As the 2021 school year begins, COVID-19 cases surge due to the Delta Variant, particularly in areas with low vaccination rates. Complicating matters, several states have banned schools from requiring students and faculty to wear masks.