Timeline: TimeToast Timeline

2000 BCE

First known school

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Period: 50 BCE to 200 BCE

Development of Roman schools

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1636

Harvard is established

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1647

The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony decrees that every town of fifty families should have an elementary school and that every town of 100 families should have a Latin school.

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1779

Thomas Jefferson proposes a two-track educational system, with different tracks in his words for "the laboring and the learned."

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1790

Pennsylvania state constitution calls for free public education but only for poor children. It is expected that rich people will pay for their children's schooling.

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1800

The Chalkboard

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1805

New York Public School Society formed by wealthy businessmen to provide education for poor children.

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1817

A petition presented in the Boston Town Meeting calls for establishing of a system of free public primary schools.

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1820

First public high school in the US

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1827

Massachusetts passes a law making all grades of public school open to all pupils free of charge.

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1851

State of Massachusetts passes first its compulsory education law.

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1900

Pencil is created

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1905

The U.S. Supreme Court requires California to extend public education to the children of Chinese immigrants.

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1913

Thomas Edison states that books will be obsolete

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1920

Radio allows on-air classes

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1930

Overhead Projector is created

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1932

A survey of 150 school districts reveals that three quarters of them are using so-called intelligence testing to place students in different academic tracks.

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1939

IQ testing is developed

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1948

Educational Testing Service is formed

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1951

Videotapes are used for instruction

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1954

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The Supreme Court unanimously agrees that segregated schools are "inherently unequal" and must be abolished.

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1959

The photocopier allowing for mass production of material

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1959

ACT is developed

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1960

First African American to attend all-white school

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1972

Handheld calculator which allowed quick mathematical calculations

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1972

Scantron System of Testing allows teacher to grade more efficiently

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1974

Milliken v. Bradley. A Supreme Court made up of Richard Nixon's appointees rules that schools may not be desegregated across school districts.

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1980

Microcomputers become more affordable

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1980

Push to integrate technology into the classroom

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1980

The federal Tribal Colleges Act establishes a community college on every Indian reservation, which allows young people to go to college without leaving their families.

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1983

A Nation at Risk report

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1994

Proposition 187 passes in California, making it illegal for children of undocumented immigrants to attend public school.

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1999

First school shooting at Columbine High School

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2001

No Child Left Behind Act

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2009

Common Core

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2009