Historical Education Timeline

Historical Education Timeline – Education throughout the Ages

Kylie Mirjanian

Intro to Elementary Education

Professor Dr. Isbell

October 10, 2017

Historical Education Timeline – Education throughout the Ages

The 1600s

Values emphasized basic skills to learn religious catechisms and read prayers.

1620s – Colonial Schools

- Parochial

- Dame

o Horn Book

- Reading and Writing

o New England Primer used

1630s – Latin Grammar Schools

1635 – Boston Latin School established

1636 – Harvard and Yale established

1640s – The Origins of Mandated Education

1642 – Massachusetts Act of 1642

1647 – Massachusetts Act of 1647

o Also known as the Old Deluder Satan Act

1690 – New England Primer officially printed

1700s

1751 – Benjamin Franklin Academy

1770 – Schools founded for African Americans and Native Americans

1776 – American Revolution

1779 – Thomas Jefferson Virginia Legislature

1783 – Noah Webster’s Speller introduced

1785 – Massachusetts Act expanded

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1792 – Sarah Pierce’s Academy founded

School in house

1800s

1821 – 1st women’s college founded by Emma Williams. Troy Seminary

1824 – University of Virginia founded by Thomas Jefferson

- Common Schools

1836 – McGuffey Readers first published by Rev. W. H. McGuffey

1837 – Horace Mann, Senator of Massachusetts/secretary of state board of education, advocate

for common schools.

- First Kindergarten, started by Friedrich Froebel

1839 – First Public Normal School legislature

1841 – 5th Report published: Horace Mann

1843 – 7th Report published: Horace Mann

1849 – 1st women administrator of normal schools – Electa Lincoln Walton

1850 – Roberts vs. City of Boston (1st official ground for segregation)

1852 – Sarah Pierce’s Female Academy

- Compulsory Education law passed

1855 – 1st Kindergarten in Wisconsin – Margarethe Schultz

- Peak enrollment at 6,156… English Academies… “People’s College”

1857 – NEA founded

1860 – Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Boston

First Private, English-speaking kindergarten

1862 – Morrill Land-Grant Act

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1865 – Freedman’s Bureau – “foundations of education” for former slaves

1868 – Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute of Virginia

Booker T. Washington

1869 – 9,500 teachers taught at freedmen’s schools

1870 – When Bureau ended – 4,529 schools established

1873 – 1st successful kindergarten, Susan Blow

1874 – Free Public Education

1880/1881 – Tuskegee Institute Founded

Booker T. Washington

1892 – Committee of Ten conference

1893 – Committee of Fifteen conference

1896 – Laboratory school (for testing progressive principles) opened

John Dewey

1900s

1900 – The demand for teachers had grown dramatically

1904 – Founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial school for Training Negro Girls

Mary McLeod Bethune

John Dewey

Laboratory school (1896)

Wrote several articles on education

Became the founder of Progressivism

1913 – NEA established the commission on reorganization of secondary education

1915 – Maria Montessori’s Method

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1916 – A.F.T. founded professionalism of teaching and to increase salaries and benefits

1919 – Progressive Education Association was founded

Went for next two decades - implementing progressive theories in classroom that

believed to lead improvement of society

1923 – The Daytona Normal and Industrial school merged with a boy’s school

In Jacksonville, Florida

Became Bethune-Cookman College

1924 – Native Americans became U.S. citizens

- Confinement on reservations

- Forced assimilation

1928 – The Problem of Indian Administration

Landmark report

Recommended that Native American education be restructured

1930 – 2/3 of Native Americans attended boarding schools

1941 – Lanham Act

1949 – G.I. Bill of Rights

1950 – About 25 million children enrolled in public schools

- Ohman v. Board of Education

1954 – Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

Separate but equal

1957 – Soviet Union launches first satellite into space “Sputnik”

- African American students desegregate at Little Rock HS

1958 – National Defense Education Act of 1958

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1959 – West v. Board of Education of City of New York

1964 – Congress extended the National Defense Education act for 3 years and expanded Title III

1965 – The Elementary and Secondary Education Act

1966 – Alvin Independent School District v. Cooper

1968 – The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was amended with Title VII

- Epperson v. Arkansas

1969 – Morrison v. State Board of Education

- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Districts

- Zucker v. Panitz

- Sullivan v. Houston Independent School District

1970 – John Holt led home education movement

- The demand for teacher accountability

1970-71 – Scoville v. Board of Education of Joliet Township High School District 204

1971 – Mailloux v. Kiley

1972 – Wisconsin v. Yoder

- Fagen v. Summers

- Shanley v. Northeast Independent School District

- Karr v. Schmidt

- Holt v. Sheldon

- Davis v. Meek

- Moran v. School District

- Romans v. Crenshaw

1974 – Station v. Travelers Insurance Co.

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1975 – Title IX of Education Amendments Act

- Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142)

o Mainstreaming Law

- Burton v. Cascade School District Union High School No. 5

- Goss v. Lopez

1976 – Hortonville Joint School District No. 1 v. Hortonville Education Association

- Peter Doe v. San Francisco Unified School District

1977 – Gaylord v. Tacoma School District No. 10

- Ingraham v. Wright

1980-81 – Doe v. Renfrow

1982 – Paideia Proposal

Curriculum based on Great Books

- Simonetti v. School District of Philadelphia

1983 – Mueller v. Allen

- Marcus v. Rowley

1985 – Wallace v. Jaffree

- New Jersey v. T.L.O.

1986 – Unified School District No. 241 v. Swanson

1987 – Edwards v. Aguillard

- Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County

- Patchogue-Medford Congress of Teachers v. Board of Education of Patchogue-

Medford Union Free School District

- Ray v. School District of DeSoto County

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1987-88 – Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education

- Burch v. Barker

1988 – Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier

- Schaill v. Tippecanoe School Corp.

1989 – Krizek v. Cicero-Stickney Township High School District No. 201

1990 – Stone v. Graham

- Board of Education of Westside Community Schools v. Mergens

1993 – Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District

- Jeglin v. San Jacinto Unified School District

- Alfonso v. Fernandez

1994 – President Clinton signs into law Goals 2000: Educate America Act

1995 – Dubuclet v. Home Insurance Company

- Picarella v. Terrizzi

- Acton v. Vernonia School District

1995-96 – Curtis v. School Committee of Falmouth

1996 – Murray v. Pittsburg Board of Public Education

1997 – Agostini v. Felton

1999 – Lipsman v. New York City Board of Education

2000s

2000 – Mitchell v. Helms

- Santa Fe Independent School District v. Jane Doe

- Falvo v. Owasso Independent School District

2001 – Good News Club v. Milford Central School

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2002 – No Child Left Behind Act

- Owasso Independent School District v. Falvo

2003 – Flores v. Morgan Hill Unified School District

2004 – Yap v. Oceanside Union Free School District

2005 – Harry A. v. Duncan

- Mohammed exrel. Mohammed v. School District of Philadelphia

2010 – President Obama changes NCLB Act

Initiates the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Implements Teacher and Leader Innovation Fund

WHY

So, why is remembering education history important? By continuing to remind ourselves

of the past decisions, mistakes, and successes made towards education, we can better understand

how best to move forward. We are an ever-growing society and we must continue to look back in

order to further develop forward as an education-based nation. Education is incredibly important

and we have yet to find all the answers for how to encourage 100% success in each student. It

will probably never happen but, as teachers, we must work hard to achieve as near to that success

rate as we possibly can. Our future students depend on our teaching methods and our success.