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    The educational timeline document outlines major events in the development of the US education system from 1635 to 1958, including the founding of early schools like Boston Latin School in 1635, the establishment of schools for African and Native Americans in 1704, the development of female academies and high schools in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and landmark court cases and policies like Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the National Defense Education Act in 1958.

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    The educational timeline document outlines major events in the development of the US education system from 1635 to 1958, including the founding of early schools like Boston Latin School in 1635, the establishment of schools for African and Native Americans in 1704, the development of female academies and high schools in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and landmark court cases and policies like Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the National Defense Education Act in 1958.

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    The educational timeline document outlines major events in the development of the US education system from 1635 to 1958, including the founding of early schools like Boston Latin School in 1635, the establishment of schools for African and Native Americans in 1704, the development of female academies and high schools in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and landmark court cases and policies like Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the National Defense Education Act in 1958.

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    Educational Timeline

    1635: Boston Latin school was founded


    1647: Massachusetts Act Mandated Est. of schools.
    1704: First schools for African and Native Americans.
    1745: Latin grammar schools, Latin and Greek were introduced.
    1751: Benjamin Franklin designed the Philadelphia academy. It replaced the old Latin grammar
    schools.
    1779: Thomas J proposed the bill for more general diffusion of knowledge. It was a state
    controlled elementary school that was no cost to parents. 3 years’ worth of reading, writing and
    arithmetic for white children. This school was not successful.
    1770: Best African American school was founded by Anthony Benezet in Philadelphia.
    1792: First female academy “Pierce Litchfield” founded in Connecticut.
    During the 1800’s: Reverend W.H McGuffey had the greatest impact on children learning to
    read.
    1819: Federal funds were granted through the office of Indian Affairs for Indian schools.
    1821: The first state supported high school in the U.S was the Boston English Classical school.
    1837: First kindergarten was founded
    1839: First public normal school opened in Lexington, Massachusetts.
    1841: Mann published the fifth report encouraging support of common public schools.
    1850: Segregation of schools began (Roberts Vs. City of Boston)
    1857: The national education association was founded.
    1865: African American leaders in Georgia formed an education association to raise money in
    order to supervise their own schools.
    1869: Because of attendance laws, only 64 percent of 5-17-year children attended public schools.
    1882: Courses for high school were stablished
    1894-1904: Dewey served as head of departments of philosophy, psychology, and pedagogy at
    the University of Chicago.
    1896: Dewey and his wife, established the laboratory school for testing progressive principles in
    the classroom.
    1904: Mary McLeod Bethun went to Daytona Beach, where she founded the “Daytona Normal
    and Industrial school for training negro girls.”
    1913: Re organization of secondary education
    1915: Almost 100 Montessori schools were operating in the U.S.
    1919: The progressive Education was founded and went on to devote the nest two decades to
    implementing progressive theories in the classroom that believed would lead to the improvement
    of society.
    1928: Mandating for Native American education to be restructured.
    1930: An estimated two-thirds of Native Americans were attending boarding schools.
    1944: G.I bill of rights was provided to veterans.
    1954: Brown Vs. Board of education of Topeka
    1958: National defense education act

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