A BLAST THROUGH

THE PAST
OUR EDUCATION HISTORY AND A PEEK INTO THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE FUTURE
BY LONDON WALSH

EDU 201
SANDRA GREGORIO
3/2/17
 1600s
Boston Latin Harvard College Massachusetts Massachusetts
School founded is established Act of 1642 Act of 1647
1635 1636 1642 1647

Begins pre-college First higher education First school law in U.S. First law to appoint
education for institution- still there in Required parents to “teachers” for the children
future leaders only present time teach children to read in towns of 50 households
and write or more
of higher class
John Locke releases College of First publicly supported
First print of New Some Thoughts William and Mary library opens in Charles
England Primer Concerning Education opens Town, SC

1690 1693 1693 1698

Taught the alphabet Introduced idea that Second College in Libraries are an
through couplets boys should be America and also excellent source of
and woodcuts, moral, rationally- the college that information and
instilling religious thinking, and Thomas Jefferson learning
ideals as well reflective attended
 1700s
Elias Neau starts one Ursuline Academy Christian Wolff Benjamin Franklin
of the first African of New Orleans is develops doctrine helps establish the first
American schools founded “Faculty Psychology English Academy
1704 1727 1734 1751
This was a stepping Oldest operating Idea of disciplining History, geography,
stone toward the academy for girls and mind through tedious navigation, surveying, and
future of education oldest Catholic Academy drill, influencing classical languages take
for minorities in the U.S. education for centuries place as curriculum

Anthony Benezet founded Thomas Jefferson proposes Noah Webster

one of the most successful Bill for More General releases “Speller” Young Ladies
African American schools Diffusion of Knowledge that replaces Primer Academy opens

1770 1779 1783 1787

He believed that Introduces idea for free Not only teaches the This was the first
African Americans public elementary and alphabet but public school for
were equal to whites secondary education emphasized on girls
for white people behavior, patriotism,
and deserved an
although it was
equal opportunity for unsuccessful
and morality for children
education
 1800s
Horace Mann
Emma Wallard opens becomes the first First public Normal
one of the first secretary of a state School in Lexington,
women’s colleges McGuffrey Readers board of education Massachusetts
1821 1836 1837 July 3, 1839

Higher education Had the greatest He improved the quality of Teachers now had a school to
finally becomes an impact on what schools with ideas that learn how to teach and paved
option for women children learn in became known to the the way for other states to
school whole country and create free public schools
supported common Susan Blow opens the
Electa Lincoln Walton: first The National Teachers
public school
woman to administer a Association gets first successful public
state Normal School founded Marril Land-Grant Act kindergarten

1849 1857 1862 1873

This was a step toward Teachers and other This raised funds for This remains an
the future for women school administrators establishments of colleges in essential part of young
leaders, to show men now had a voice in agriculture and mechanical
children’s education
that women can do arts and set a model for how
what went on in of motor skills and
federal government could
just as much as they education social development.
get involved with higher
can education
 Mary McLeod Bethune
1900s
founded the Daytona Progressive
Normal and Industrial School Education
for Training Negro Girls Association Lanham Act GI Bill of Rights

1904 1919 1941 1944

She made great impacts in the Implemented theories of The federal Stimulated the growth of American
education system for African child-centered curriculum, government is getting colleges and Universities and
Americans, later leading to make it some that is still used more involved in provides more opportunity for
possible for 150,000 African today veterans to return to school after
Americans to attend high school.
education
serving in the military
Elementary &
Brown v. Board of Secondary Education Handicapped
Education of Topeka Act Title IX Children’s Act
1954 1965 1972 1975

Supreme Court’s decision This began helping the No more Those with disabilities
slowly began the process children in poverty who discrimination of sex guaranteed the
of desegregation in could not afford more as far as educational proper education
than the lowest basic opportunity goes
schools they deserved
education
 No Child Left Behind Act
2000s
The North American
gets signed by Congress Reggio Emilia The Higher Education Individual with
and approved by Alliance gets Act gets Disabilities Improvement
President Bush formally launched reauthorized, again. Act gets reauthorized
2001-2002 2002 2003 2004

An act that Put a focus on preschool and Provides additional Allows those with disabilities
probably did more early childhood education funding aid to lower to get the proper plan for
harm than good, is ensuring a more successful and middle class their education earlier on
students for college
no longer in place path to education down the Mike Pence casts deciding
road
Supreme Court rules that race American Great Recession vote that confirms Betsy
cannot be a factor in assigning Reinvestment and causing major budget DeVos as secretary of
students to high schools Recovery Act cuts in education education
2007 2009 2010 2017
After all that we have Provided over $90 Many, many This decision has cast a
seen, the fact that race is billion toward teachers lost their shadow on what the
still even a factor in any education jobs or got laid off future will look like and
part of educational it is time for public
opportunity boggled my educators to fight for
mind public schooling like
never before