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1600’s

❏ 1620:

Colonial Schools: schools were founded to learn scriptures/heavily influenced Puritans

Dame Schools: horn book/widows and housewives were teachers

Reading and Writing Schools

❏ 1635:

Latin Grammar School: Boston Latin School 1635

Harvard College 1636

Philemon Pormont

❏ 1642:

Massachusetts Act of 1642

❏ 1647:

Massachusetts Act of 1647

Town of 50 households-Reading & Writing/100 households-Latin Grammar School

❏ 1690:

New England Primer

❏ 1704:

Schools for African Americans and Native Americans in NYC 1704

1700’s
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First half of 1700’s wealthy boys are educated

❏ 1704:

Elias Neau est. 1st North American and African American School NY

During this time a religious emphasis was placed on education.

Educational emphasis in public schools was reading, writing, and math.

Respect toward a teacher depended on the teaching level.

❏ 1745:

Greek and Latin Schools introduced arithmetic

❏ 1751:

Benjamin Franklin established Philadelphia Academy, a private secondary school.

Emphasis changed from religious to political mid 1700’s

Boys of all social and economic status attended school

❏ 1770:

Best known African American school funded by Anthony Benezet

❏ 1776:

Franklin, Jefferson, Pierce, and Webster pushed education reform.

❏ 1779:

Bill for More General Diffusion of Knowledge proposed by Thomas Jefferson.

❏ 1783:

Webster 1st introduced Speller

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❏ 1785:

Northwest Ordinance gave federal land use to states for education purposes.

❏ 1792:

Sarah Pierce established Litchfield female Academy from in her home.

❏ 1796:

Act to establish public schools

1800’s

❏ 1821:

Trey Seminar Founded

1st State supported high school

❏ 1824:

Renamed 1st supported high school

❏ 1836:

120 million McGuffey Readers sold from 1836-60

❏ 1837:

Horace Mann becomes secretary of Massachusetts Education

❏ 1839:

1st public school opened

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❏ 1841:

Fifth report published

❏ 1843:

Horace Mann 7th report

❏ 1848:

Horace Mann resigns

❏ 1849:

Elect Lincoln Walton

❏ 1850:

First recorded official ground for school segregation

Roberts vs City of Boston

❏ 1852:

Compulsory Education Laws -Massachusetts

❏ 1855:

English Academics multiplied

Carl Schurz and his wife Margaretha Meyer Schurz ​ opens first kindergarten

❏ 1856:

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

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❏ 1857:

National Education Association (NEA) was founded

❏ 1860:

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody opens first private English Speaking Kindergarten

❏ 1868:

William E. Burghardt (1868-1967)

❏ 1869:

More than 9500 teachers taught at Freedmen's schools.

❏ 1870:

Freedmen's ended

❏ 1873:

First successful public kindergarten

❏ 1879:

131 teachers working in 53 kindergarten classes

1900’s

❏ 1900:

Compulsory education laws were passed in 32 states

Demand for teachers had grown dramatically

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❏ 1909-1915:

Ella Flagg Young, Catherine Goggin, and Margaret Hatry played important roles in the governance of

Chicago schools.

❏ 1913:

National Education Association appointed the commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education

❏ 1918:

Comissions report, Cardinal Pricipals of Secondary Education releasesd.

❏ 1919:

Progressive Education Association was founded

78.3% of 5-17 year olds attended public schools

❏ 1930:

Compulsory education laws were passed in all states

❏ 1944:

G.I Bill of Rights signed by President Franklin D Roosevelt

❏ 1954:

Brown vs Board of Education

❏ 1955:

Progressive Education Association ceased operation.

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❏ 1957:

Sputnik

African American Students at Little Rock Central High School

❏ 1958:

National Defense Education Act 1985 US Office of Education sponsored research and innovation in

science, mathematics,modern foreign language

❏ 1959:

Admiral HG Rickover published “Education and Freedom”

❏ 1960:

Call for relevance results in expanded course offerings and electives

During reform activity public school enrollments rose dramatically

A.S. Neill wrote Summerhill

❏ 1963:

Sylvia Ashton Warner

❏ 1964:

John Holt “How Children Fail”

❏ 1965:

Congress passed elementary and secondary education act

❏ 1968:

Amended with title VII the Bilingual Education Act

❏ 1970:
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Back-to-Basics movement emphasizes reading, writing, math, and oral communication

❏ 1975:

Title IX Education Amendments Act ”No Person in the U.S shall on the basis of sex, be excluded from

participation in, or be denied.

Education for all handicapped children Act

❏ 1980:

Education Reform movement

❏ 1983:

Nation at Risk report calls for “five new basics” English, math, science,social studies, computer science.

❏ 1985

Rigorous Core Curriculum advocated at all levels an effort to increase standards

❏ 1987

Leisure Merced the 80s the teacher bashing era

❏ 1989

Carnegie Council on adolescent development reform

❏ 1990

President George W bush unveil schools identifying 6 educational goals

❏ 2002

President George W Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
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❏ 2007

Achievement gap

❏ 2008

Nationwide recession

❏ 2010

President Barack Obama prison changes to no child Behind Act 2014 all students will leave high school

college and career-ready