Joselyn Castillo

February 21, 2022

Professor Sgobba

Education 201

Development of Education in America 1600-2000

• 1635- The Boston Latin School was founded.

-Provided a pre-college education for the new country’s future

leaders and was patterned after the classical schools of Europe.

• 1642- Massachusetts Act of 1642

- Viewed by some as the first school law in the colonies. This

required each town to determine whether young people could

read and write. The act made it clear that the education of

children was a direct concern of the local citizenry.

• 1704- One of the first schools for African Americans and

Native Americans was started

- Founded by Elias Neau in New York City. Neau spoke out

against slavery and the lack of education for the children of the

slaves.
• 1751- The Philadelphia Academy opens

- Designed and promoted by Benjamin Franklin, the academy

replaced the old Latin Grammar school and had a curriculum

that was broader and more practical and focused on the English

language rather than Latin.

• 1839- The first public normal school in the United States opens

- Opened on July 3, 1839, in Lexington, Massachusetts. The

curriculum consisted of general-knowledge courses plus courses

in pedagogy and practice teaching in a model school affiliated

with the normal school.

• 1849- Roberts vs. City of Boston

- The Massachusetts Supreme Court rules that the Boston Public

Schools can deny enrollment of African American children to

segregated, “whites-only” schools. The case is later cited as a

precedent for the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling.

• 1862- The Morrill Land-Grant Act is passed

 - Provided federal land for states either to sell or to rent in order

to raise funds for the establishment of colleges of agriculture

and mechanical arts.

• 1913- The National Education Association appointed the

Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education

- Called for a high school curriculum designed to accommodate

individual differences in scholastic ability

• 1941- The Lanham Act is passed

- Provided funding for the training of workers in war plants by

U.S. Office of Education personnel and for the construction of

schools in areas where military personnel and workers on

federal projects resided and also for the provision of childcare

for the children of working parents.

• 1944- The G.I Bill of Rights is signed into law

- The bill has provided millions of veterans with payments for

tuition and room and board at colleges and universities and at

special schools. It stimulated the growth of American colleges

 and universities, and it also changed the character of the higher

education student population.

• 1954- End of Segregation

- On May 17, 1954, the U.S Supreme Court rejected the “separate

but equal” doctrine used since 1850 as a justification for

excluding African Americans from attending schools with

Whites.

• 1975- Congress enacted the Education for all Handicapped

Children Act

- The EHA supported states and localities in protecting the rights

of, meeting the individual needs of, and improving the results

for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities and

their families.

• 2002- No Child Left Behind Act is signed into law

- President George W. Bush signs the act into law, reauthorizing

ESSEA and calling for all students to make “adequate yearly

progress”.
• 2018- Federal Court temporarily blocks the Trump

administration’s 2017 repeal of the Deferred Action for

Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

- DACA allowed those brought to the U.S illegally as children to

receive a two-year period of deferred action from deportation.

Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy for illegal entry to

the U.S made it difficult for students with DACA to continue

with their college education.

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https://sites.ed.gov/idea/IDEA-History

American Educational history: A hypertext timeline. American Educational History Timeline.

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