Girls Education Timeline

Girls Education Timeline

1743

American Philosophical Society

1693

'Some Thoughts

Concerning Education'

1972

Title IX Law

1833

First Co-Education College

1909

1st Female Superintendent

The American Philosophical Society was first founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743. The American Philosophical Society was what brought the ideas from the Renaissance and Enlightenment to the American Colonies. Benjamin Franklin began the American Philosophical Society because he thought that America needed more skilled scholars to teach the students, so he was able to teach and train the scholars. This ended up in him starting the very first true American Academy. The Society has played an important role in American Education for over 270 years.

In 1909, Ella Flagg Young was voted as the first female to ever be a superintendant of a large public school system. She was superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools. One year later, she was elected as the president of the National Education Association.

John Locke was a man who lived in Europe during the Renaissance. During the Enlightenment, John Locke published the book 'Some Thoughts Concerning Education' in 1693. He wrote that children should be educated on reason, and be taught good morals. He wanted children to obey reason and have good judgment. He also writes that he thinks that learning should be fun for children and that they should be taken seriously while speaking their ideas. His book was a very big influence and inspiration for America's education.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 became a law in June 23, 1972 with President Richard Nixon signing off. Title IX states, "no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation, be denied the benefits of, or be the subject to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal Financial Assistance." Senator Birch Bayh in Indiana was the first to introduced the law which now impacts high schools and colleges and more specifically female and male athletes.

The first co-education college was opened in December 3, 1833 and was founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philop P. Stewart. The first co-educational college is Oberlin College located in Oberlin, Ohio. Oberlin College started off with 29 men and 15 women and then in 1837, there was an equal amount of women and men. In 1844, the first three women, Caroline Mary Rudd, Elizabeth Prall, and Mary Hosford, graduated Oberlin College.

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1852

Compulsory Education

1960

First African American Child To Attend An All-White School

1727

Ursuline Academy

2004-2005

Doctoral Degrees

1819

'Plan for Improving

Female Education'

Massachussetts was the first state to pass the Compulsory Eduation law, in 1852. The law made it required for all children to attend school between the ages of about seven to fifteen, with either at a public school or home schooling as their education for twelve weeks per year, and the parents were fully responsible for their childs education and school attendance. By 1918, every state had adopted the law.

Ruby Bridges, an African American first grader, was one of six other African American children to pass a very difficult test that allowed them to go to an all-white elementary school to receive a better education. She completed the test and began to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in 1960.

Ursuline Academy is located in New Orleans, Louisiana founded by Sisters of the Order of Ursula in 1727. Ursuline Academy is a roman-catholic school; it's also the first free retreat center for girls. Ursuline Academy is also the first school with African American, colored and Native American classes. Ursuline Academy based their teaching on the philosophy of Saint Angela Merici and is open to this day.

Around the time of 2004-2005, there has been an increase in the amount of females earning doctoral degrees. Currently, there are around 20.1 million women with a bachelor's degree while 18.7 million men have a bachelor's degree. Women are starting to outnumber men in with the doctoral degree.

In 1819, 'Plan for Improving Female Education' was written by a women named Emma Hart Willard. She first started writing this letter in order to gain public support for a more better female education. Emma Willard was an advocate for both sexes to have the same education. A little after 'Plan for Improving Female Education' was written, Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York encourage Miss. Willard to open The Troy Female Seminary in September 1821 and then in 1895 the name changed to Emma Willard School on her behalf.