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US Education Timeline
1600s

School was meant to save souls, provided path to heaven; reading, writing, morals were all
revolved around the bible (page 121)
Massachusetts Law of 1647; every town of 50 households must appoint and pay for a teacher
of reading and writing, Every town of 100 households must provide a grammar school to
prepare kids for university (page 122)
Blacks and natives were typically denied, though in rare cases quakers offered to build special
schools for children of color. (page 123)
Dame schools were private schools taught by women, as a daycare for parents that were
willing to pay a fee. (page 131)
In 1687 the town of Farmington, Connecticut voted money for schools where all children shall
earn to read and write English, though all children meant all males. (page 146)
Harvard College was created in 1635 (page 149)
1700s
In 1749 Benjamin Franklin wrote Proposals Relating to the Youth of Pennsylvania, suggesting
a new type of school and two years later Franklin Academy is created. Educate all white
americans at, rich and poor at the government's expense. (page 124)
English grammar schools; moved away from the classical latin tradition and taught more
practical studies. Used to install social graces and preparation for business careers. (page
131)
Land Ordinance Act 1785, and Northwest Ordinance 1787 required new towns in Ohio and
Mississippi river to reserve a section of land for educational purposes. (page 135)
First law prohibiting education of slaves was passed in South Carolina in 1740 (page 136)
Noah Websters American Spelling Book is created in 1783 (page 149)
1800s
iN 1824 government established the BIA and Indian reservations saw more white teachers
trying to implement European American values (page 128)
Boston 1821 the first free elementary school was created. Not until 1852 was a school for girls
was maintained (page 130)

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As early as 1875 Francis Parker introduced the concept of Progressivism
Morril Land Grant College Acts 1862 and 1890, established 69 institutes of higher learning
(page 136)
Louisiana 1830, a law imposed prison sentence to anyone caught teaching a slave to read or
write. (page 137)
Immigration Act of 1882 further blocked Chinese immigration. (page 141)
Women become physically unsexed due to the strain of study, 1895, which caused many
daughter to be pushed out of the more demanding classes like Mathematics and engineering
into art and education. (page 147)
In the 1850s with the help of the Quakers the Miner Normal School for Colored Girls was
created. (page 146)
Plessy v Ferguson 1896, allowed separate but equal to be constitutional (page 137)
Kalamazoo case legalizes taxes for high schools, 1874 (page 149)
1900s
First Junior High School created in Columbus Ohio, 1909 (page 149)
Sputnik leads to increased federal education funds, 1957 (page 149)
Women were no longer treated so poorly by higher education sites and no longer required
signed letters from the husbands to allow wives into college, basically addressed sex
discrimination in schools, 1972 (page 148)
Smith Hughes Acts 1917, provided funds for training teachers at the high school level (page
136)
Separate but equal was not equal, each white child was spent $5.05 to teach while a colored
child was spent $1.10 in Mississippi (page 137)
Brown v Board of Education 1954 called separate but equal as unconstitutional and has no
place in education (page 1380
Elementary and Secondary Education Act 1965, provided financial assistance to school
districts with low income families (page 136)
Bilingual Education Act 1968, Congress agreed to provide funds to help teach students that
are Non-English speaking. (page 136)
In 1949 communist China had Congress reverse the immigration quotas on more than 5000
highly educated Chinese in the United States. ( page 141)
Cabinet level Department of Education is established, 1979 (page 149)

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Executive Order No. 9006 declared West Coast a military area and had the Japanese forced
into barren Internment camps. (Page 143)
Childrens Defense Fund was created in 1973 by Marian Wright to ensure every child has a
healthy start, a head start, fair start, safe start, and moral start. (page 138)
2000s
NCLB 2001, placed government standards on schools and required more qualified teachers,
giving penalties to schools that didnt meet certain goals, and could fire teachers if it became
too bad. Allowed more freedom to parents in choosing where they would like to have their
children taught. (page 136)
Federal Government changes NCLB allowing states greater freedom in determining how to
evaluate teachers and students, 2011 to present (page 149)