Rosamaria “Rose” Popp

Professor Christensen EDUCATIONAL HISTORICAL TIMELINE

EDU 202
5 October 2020

Early 1600’s 1636 1647 1751 1787 1822 1944 1964 1968 1975 2015
1837 1862 1892 1909 1919
1896 1896
1896

1635 1642 Early 1700’s 1785 1821 1824 1839 1874 1896 1917 1920-1930’s 1972 2001
1950’s 1965
1896 1896 1896

Early 1600’s: Dame Schools- Private
schools taught by women
1635:1st Latin Grammar school in Boston.
Classical curriculum, including Latin &
some Greek (Secondary School).
1636: 1st college est. in America- Harvard,
specifically to prepare ministers.
1642: Massachusetts Act passed a law
requiring parents/masters of apprentices
be checked periodically to ensure children
were being taught properly
1647: Old Deluder Satan Law required
every town of 50 households appoint and
pay a teacher of reading and writing. And
every town of 100 households provide a
(Latin) grammar school to prepare youths
Early 1700’s: Thomas Jefferson wanted to
go beyond educating a small elite class of
providing only religious instruction.
Jefferson maintained that education
should be more widely available to white
children from all economic & social class.
1740: 1st law prohibiting education to
slaves
1751: Benjamin Franklin established the
Franklin Academy (Secondary School)-
free of religious influence & offering a
variety of practical subjects. Accepted
both boys and girls.
1785: New Nation passed the Land of
Ordinance Act
1787: New Nation passed the Northwest
Ordinance Act
1821: 1st free Secondary School, the
English Classical School.
1822: Sequoyah invented a Cherokee
syllabary. This permitted Cherokee
language to be written.
1824: Federal Government established
the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
1837: Horace Mann helped create the
Massachusetts State Board of Education
& became its Secretary, beginning to
reform education.
1839: Horace Mann eventually
established a Common School- also
known as the public Elementary School
1850’s: Myrtilla Miner established the
Miner Normal School for colored girls in
Washington, D.C.
1862: Morrill Land Grant College Acts-
public land donated to establish 69
colleges.
1874: Kalamazoo, MI case ruled taxes
could be used to support Secondary
Schools.
1892: National Education Association (NEA)
established the Committee of Ten to
develop a national policy for high schools.
1896: Plessy v. Ferguson; Supreme Court
decision made that legalized segregation, a
doctrine of “separate but equal”(not equal)
1909: 1st Junior HS established (grades 7-9)
NAACP (National Association for Advance -
ment of Colored People) cofounded by
W.E.B.Dubois
1917: Smith-Hughes Act-provided funds
for teacher trainings & program
development in vocational education at
high school level
1919: Progressive education is formed.
1920-1930’s: John Dewey advocates for
the progressive principles
1930’s: Progressive Education Association
initiated a study during the 1930’s that
compared almost 3,000 graduates of
progressive & of traditional schools as
they made their way through college.
1944: Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (G.I
Bill of Rights)- paid veterans’ tuition &
living expenses for a specific number of
months, depending on the length of their
military service.
1954: Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, KS ruled unanimously that
schools must desegregate & that
“separate but equal” has no place in
the educational setting.
1958: Congress passes the National
Defense Education Act (NDEA) to enhance
“the security of the nation” & to develop
“the mental resources & technical skills of
its young men & women”.
1964: Project Head Start- provides
medical, social, nutritional, & educational
services for low-income children 3-6 years
of age. President Lyndon B. Johnson &
Congress establish the Civil Rights Act-
giving the Federal Government to help
local school districts desegregate (Title IV),
& when necessary, to initiate lawsuits or
withhold Federal school funds to force
desegregation (Title IV).
1965: Elementary & Secondary Education
Act (ESEA)- provided financial assistance
to school districts with low-income
families, to improve libraries &
instructional materials, & to promote
educational innovations & research.
1968: Bilingual Education Act- Congress
authorized funds to provide relevant
instruction to non-English speaking
students.
1972: Title IX of the Education Amend-
ments: this regulation prohibits discrimi-
nation on the basis of sex. This regulation
protects the rights of both males &
females.
1975, 1991, 1997, 2004: Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act- this act
provides financial assistance to local
school districts to provide free &
appropriate education for children with
disabilities who are between 3-21 years
old.
2001: No Child Left Behind Act- this act
revises the ESEA & calls for standards &
annual testing of math, reading, & science
2015: Every Student Succeeds Act- this act
continues the Federal Government’s
commitment to educational funding est.
by ESEA, but rolls back much of the
federal role in setting education policy,
from testing & curriculum to teacher &
school performance standards.