Educational Historical Timeline Estrada 1

Irishelle Estrada

Dr. Isbell

Introduction to elementary education 201

05 November 2018
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1700s:

1704 - Elias Neav: school for African Americans

1712- Jean Jacques Rousseau: “ Father of modern child Psychology”

1743-1826 - Thomas Jefferson

1745- Arithmetic was introduced

1746-1827- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

1751- Philadelphia Academy by Benjamin Franklin

1758- Noah Webster

1767- Sarah Pierce

1770- Anthony Benezet: Best African American School

1776-1841- Johann Fedrich Herbart

1778-1838- Joseph Lancaster

1782- Fedrick Frobel

1783- Noah Webster: spelling Book

1785- Passage of NorthWest Ordinance

1787-1870- Emma Willard: Women’s first college

1796- Horace Mann

The 1800s

1819- Federal funds for reservation schools were first granted

1821- Troy Seminary: First women’s college

1821- First public high school teaches basic skills and history, geography, health, and physical

training.
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1824- First common school

1837- The first kindergarten founded

1837- Horrace Man became Secretary of the Massachusetts state board of education.

1839- First public normal school

1855- Margarethe Schurz opened the first U.S. kindergarten

1857- National education association

1900s

1900- compulsory education laws were passed in 32 states

1900- Women influence on teaching started

1900- demand for teachers expanded dramatically

1902- Democracy and social ethnic published social worker

1913- The national education association appointed the commission on the to reorganize of

secondary education.

1919- Progressive education association was founded

1919-1920- 78% of children attended school.

1950-present

1957- Spunik sparks emphasis on science, math, and language

1960-1970- back to basics movement

1983- a nation at risk reports five new basics

1985- efforts to increase standards

1989- Turning points

1990- Identifying education goals

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U.S. Supreme court cases

1968-Epperson V. Arkansas: Court overturned the states anti- evolution statute on the grounds

that a state may not deny students access to scientific information because of religious conviction

1969- Morrison V. state board of education- court ruled a teachers homosexuality conduct wasn’t

an important to their teaching performances

1972- Wisconsin V. Yoder: Exempted Amish children from mandatory school attendance

1983- Mueller V. Allen: court upheld Minnesota’s tax deduction

1985- Wallace V. Jaffree