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Timeline of the history of American Education

1817 and 1821:

1772 and 1779:

1690 and 1693:

1817: Connecticut Asylum at Hartford for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons open. The first permanent school for the deaf.

1772: Founded a school of girls, which later becomes Salem College.

1635 and 1636:

1690: First New England Primer is printed in Boston. Becomes most widely-used schoolbook in New England.

1821: First public high school, Boston English High School, opens.

1779: Thomas Jefferson proposes a two-track educational system, with different tracks for "the laboring and the learned."

1635: First grammar school (Boston Latin School) is established.

- First "free school" in Virginia opens.

1642 and 1647:

1693: College of William and Mary is established in Virginia. It is the second college to open in colonial America.

1751 and 1752:

1823 and 1827:

1787 and 1801:

1642: Massachusetts Bay School Law is passed. Parents ensure their children know the principles of Religion and capital laws of commonwealth.

1636: Harvard College, first higher education institute now in the United States.

1751: Benjamin Franklin helps to establish the first "English Academy" in Philadelphia including courses as history, geography, navigation, surveying and modern & classical languages. Becomes the University of Pennsylvania.

1787: Young Ladies Academy opens in Philadelphia and becomes the first academy for girls in America.

1823: Catherine Beecher founds the Hartford Female Seminary, a private school for girls in Hartford, Connecticut.

1647: Massachusetts Law of 1647, is passed. It decrees that every town of at least 50 families hire a schoolmaster who would teach the town's children.

1801: James Pillans invents the modern blackboard.

1752: St. Matthew Lutheran School, one of the first Lutheran "parish schools" in North America, is founded in New York City.

1827: The state of Massachusetts passes a law requiring towns of more than 500 families to have a public high school open to all students.

1829 and 1837:

1867 and 1869:

1891 and 1892:

1852 and 1853:

1829: Perkins School for the Blind opens in Massachusetts, first school in the U.S. for children with visual disabilities.

1891: Stanford University is founded in 1891 by Leland Stanford.

1867: Department of Education is created in order to help states establish effective school systems.

1852: Massachusetts enacts the first mandatory attendance law. All states have them by 1918.

1837: Institute for Colored Youth opens in Cheyney, PA, Cheyney University, oldest institution of higher learning for African Americans.

1892: Formed by the National Education Association to establish a secondary school curriculum, Committee of Ten, recommends a college-oriented high school curriculum.

1869: Boston creates the first public day school for the deaf.

1853: Pennsylvania begins funding the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, private school for children with intellectual disabilities.

1839 and 1848:

1856 and 1857:

1876 and 1879:

1876: Meharry Medical College is founded in Nashville, TN. First medical school in the south for African Americans.

1839: First state funded school specifically for teacher education opens in Lexington, MA.

1856: First Kindergarten in the U.S., is started in Watertown, Wisconsin.

1879: First Indian Boarding School opens in Carlisle, PA. Carlisle Indian Industrial School closes in 1918.

1848: Samuel Gridley Howe helps establish the Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children, first school of its kind in the U.S.

1857: The National Teachers Association (National Education Association) founded in Pennsylvania.

1900 and 1901:

1989 and 1991:

1916 and 1919:

1968 and 1972:

1946 and 1959:

1900: Association of American Universities is founded to promote higher standards and put U.S. universities on an equal footing with their European counterparts.

1989: University of Phoenix established their "online campus," the first to offer online bachelor's and master's degrees. It becomes the "largest private university in North America.

1968: Bilingual Education Act becomes law. Repealed in 2002 and replaced by the No Child Left Behind Act.

1946: Recognizing "the need for a permanent legislative basis for a school lunch program," the 79th congress approves the National School Lunch Act.

1916: The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is founded. So is the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

1991: Minnesota passes the first "charter school" law.

-Smart board (interactive white board) is introduced by SMART Technologies.

1901: Joliet Junior College in Joliet, IL opens. First public community college in the U.S.

1972: Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 becomes a law. Girl's and Women's participation in sports.

1959: The ACT test is first administered.

1919: Progressive Education Association is founded with the goal of reforming American Education.

-All states have laws providing funds for transporting children to school.

1909 and 1914:

1975 and 1984:

1926 and 1939:

1963 and 1965:

1909: Indianola Junior High School opens in Ohio and becomes the first junior high school in the U.S.

1975: National Association of Bilingual Education is founded.

1926: Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is first administered. Based on the Army Alpha test.

1963: Coral Way Elementary School starts the first bilingual and bi-cultural public schools in the U.S.

1914: The Smith-Lever Act establishes a system of Cooperative extension services connected to land grant universities and provides federal funds for extension activities.

1984: Emergency Immigration Education Act is enacted to provide services and offset the costs for school districts that have unexpected large numbers of immigrant students.

1939: Adoption of standards for the nation's school buses, including the shade of yellow.

1965: Project Head Start, a preschool education program for children from low-income families, begins as an eight-week summer program.

1992 and 1994-1995:

1995 and 2001:

2013:

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1995: Georgia becomes the first state to offer universal preschool to all four year-old's whose parents chose to enroll them.

1992: City Academy High School, the nation's first charter school, opens in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Source:

Sass, Ed.D, Edmund. "American Educational History Timeline." American Educational History Timeline. EDS-Resources, 7 Oct. 2015. Web. 22 Oct. 2015.

May 22, 2013: The Chicago Board of Education votes to close 50 schools, the largest mass closing in U.S. history. Closures are not only necessary to reduce costs, but will also improve educational quality.

2001: The controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is approved by congress and signed into a law on Jan. 8, 2002.

1994-1995: Whiteboards find their way into U.S. classrooms in increasing numbers and begin to replace the blackboard.

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