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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

In the 1800s....

Ben Franklin founds a private academy that offers practical curriculum of variety subjects

1800s

In 1821 the first government owned public school opens up in Boston MA

Horace Mann

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

Education Throughout History

By: Elisha Hemphill

the early stages

known names in education history

key moments in 1800s and 1900s

data from 1900 to 2000s

no child left behind

not race but Gender

1900s

Early stages

No Child Left Behind Act

is signed into law to remedy a crisis in education and give children in low-performing

public schools options to choose better public schools.

Gender separation:

In 2002, only 11 public schools in the United States had gender-segregated classrooms. As of December 2009, there were more than 550.

The movement is based on the hypothesis that hard-wired differences in the ways that male and female brains develop and function in childhood through adolescence require classrooms in which boys and girls are not only separated by gender, but also taught according to radically different methods.

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.

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