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in 1727 , The Academy graduated the first female pharmacist, and the first woman to contribute a book of literary merit. It contained the first convent. It was the first free school and first retreat center for ladies, and first classes for female African-American slaves, free women of color, and Native Americans. In the region, Ursuline provided the first center of social welfare in the Mississippi Valley, first boarding school in Louisiana and the first school of music in New Orleans
Ben Franklin founds a private academy that offers practical curriculum of variety subjects
In 1821 the first government owned public school opens up in Boston MA
Seeking to win public support for government schools, chief advocate
Horace Mann
, who is appointed Secretary of
Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837, assures Protestants that the public schools will regularly use the
Protestant Bible
Early American education was primarily private or religious, and it brought mass schooling and literacy to the nation well before the public
school system we know today,Public schooling arose in response to an influx of immigrants who had different
religions or cultures. Its primary focus was to establish social order and mainstream vast numbers of immigrant children into a common school
setting
in 1909 the First public junior high school was established in Berkeley California
Between 1982 and 1992, 32 states change their compulsory attendance laws to specifically permit home schooling
The first public school in America was established by Puritan settlers in 1635 in the home of Schoolmaster Philemon Pormont and was later moved to School Street. Boys from various socio-economic backgrounds attended Boston Latin School until 1972 when girls were also accepted.