Amanda Miner

03/05/21

EDU 202-1001

Professor Christensen

Education Timeline:

1600’s:

• Dame Schools started – first schools that children could learn outside of their homes

and families.

• Apprenticeship Programs started – children could learn certain skills under different

professions.

• Local Schools – Set up in towns for those that could afford it.

• Comenius created his theory in development stages of learning, he also supported

universal education.

• 1619 – Many African Americans and Native Americans were refused education.

• 1635 – First Latin Grammar School built in Boston.

• 1636 – Harvard College was built. First college in America.

• 1642 – Massachusetts puts into effect a law that requires parents and masters are

teaching the children what they are supposed to be learning.

• 1647 – Old Deluder Satan Law put into effect that required every town to pay for a

teacher and or a Latin grammar school depending on the size of the town.
 • 1687 – Town Council of Farmington, Connecticut votes money into schools, allowing

only boys into them.

1700’s:

• Private teachers and night schools are established in New York and Philadelphia.

• Education was reconstructed during the revolution.

• Private schools starting up. Usually having specialty studies.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau worked on distinguishing schooling and concerns of development

stages in education.

• Johann Herbart, known for his contributions to moral development in education, created a

structure methodology of instruction.

• 1740 – South Caroline creating a law to prevent freed slaves’ education.

• 1749 – Benjamin Franklin writes Proposals Relating to the Youth of Pennsylvania, which

talked about going away from Latin grammar school and going towards the academy

school instead.

• 1751 – Franklin Academy was built, being available to more children. Later turns into

University of Pennsylvania.

• 1785 – Land Ordinance Act, reserving areas of land for schooling.

• 1787 – Northwest Ordinance Act, reserving areas of land for schooling.

1800’s:
• Horace Mann established common schools (known as public elementary schools now) for

those that could not afford education up to this point. Helped by Henry Barnard and

others.

• Massachusetts State Board of Education is created

• Normal Schools created – prepare teachers for their roles as teachers.

• Emma Hart Willard advocates for women’s rights into higher education, creating Troy

Female Seminary, which helped teach teachers for their roles, created before normal

schools.

• Mary Lyon created Mount Holyoke, a seminary which became a noted women’s college.

• Emma Hart Willard and Catherine Beecher created textbooks for teaching.

• Booker T. Washington, known for his contributions in vocational education for African

Americans and established Tuskegee University.

• 1821 – English Classical School created in Boston, becoming first high school.

• 1822 – Cherokee syllabary created.

• 1823 – Mississippi created a law to six or more African Americans from gathering for

education purposes.

• 1824 – Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) created, placing tribes on reservations. Creating

Indian boarding schools as well.

• 1828 – President Andrew Jackson is elected, giving voice to lower class people who want

an education.

• 1830 – Louisiana created a law that prisoned anyone that was teaching a slave.

• 1833 – Prudence Crandall opened her school for girls in Canterbury, Connecticut. A few

months later, she allowed Sarah Harris to join, who was an African American. Which
 also was when the Black Law was in effect, which caused Prudence to be arrested for it.

Later that year she closed her school down because of riots that torn her school down.

• 1837 – Horace Mann became secretary (superintendent today) for the Massachusetts

State Board of Education.

• 1837 – Friedrich Froebel created the first kindergarten.

• 1846 – 1848 – United States and Mexico war ended.

• 1850’s – Chinese migration begins in US.

• 1850’s – Harriet Beecher Stowe, and other Quakers helped Myrtilla Miner established the

Miner Normal School for Colored Girls.

• 1852 – High schools in Boston accepting girls into them.

• 1855 – Margaretta Schurz created a German-language kindergarten.

• 1860 – Elizabeth Peabody created training for kindergarten teachers in Boston.

• 1873 – Dr. Edward Clarke stated that women in higher education would lose blood to

their ovaries and have it redirected to their brains.

• 1874 Kalamazoo Michigan case. Taxes can be used to support secondary schools.

• 1875 – Progressive Education starting to be introduced. With Francis Parker

• 1880 – Almost 10 million Americans enrolled in common schools.

• 1882 – Immigration Act created. Blocking immigrates from China.

• 1892 – National Education Association established the Committee of Ten to develop

policies for high schools.

• 1895 – University of Virginia stated that women were often physically unsexed by

studying.

• 1896 – Plessy v. Ferguson, which created segregation in American schools.

1900’s:

• Females starting to fill up the workforce of teaching. These women were referred to as

spinsters.

• Junior High Schools and Middle Schools are created. Preparing students for high school.

• Mary McLeod Bethune created a school that later became Bethune-Cookman College,

she was also an advisor to President FDR.

• Paulo Freire created critical pedagogy, which places the student in the center of learning.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed was one of his best works.

• W.E.B. DuBois, known for cofounding the National Association for the Advancement of

Colored People. Encouraged African Americans to gain higher education.

• Jean Piaget, known for his work in the theory of cognitive development.

• B.F. Skinner, known for his work in altering environments to promote learning.

• 1900 – 200,000 Mexican Americans star building cities in the Southwest.

• 1907 – African American children were giving $1.10 for education while White Children

were given $5.02 for education.

• 1907 – Indian Americans attacked in Bellingham Washington.

• 1908 – Maria Montessori created the Casa dei Bambini school.

• 1909 – First junior high school in Columbus, Ohio.

• 1913 – California Alien Land Law, preventing Asian Americans from owning land in

California.

• 1917 – Jones Act created. Allowing migration between Puerto Rico and United States.
• 1919 – NEA established second Committee of Ten to help students for the real life.

Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education.

• 1919 – Progressive Education Association created.

• 1920 – Segregation starts towards Mexican American children.

• 1920s to 1930’s – Progressive Education starting to spread to other schools. Due to John

Dewey.

• 1924 – States paying $1 million to transport white children to schools.

• 1924 – law created that prevent Japanese from immigrating to US.

• 1930’s – Progressive Education Association study on graduates from traditional and

progressive schools. The Eight Year study.

• 1934 – Tydings - McDuffie Act created, excluding immigrates from Philippines.

• 1942 – Japanese American located into relocation camps after Pearl Harbor attack.

• 1946 – law created to allow Indians to immigrate to US again.

• 1949 – Reversing Immigration Act of 1882, allowing immigrates from China again.

• 1950’s – Cuban’s immigration towards U.S increases.

• 1950 to 1952 – Sylvia Ashton-Warner created the technique Key Vocabulary which is

still used in schools today.

• 1954 – Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which lead to desegregating schools.

• 1958 – National Defense Education Act (NDEA), enhancing national security.

• 1960 – Kenneth Clark was the first African American to be tenured at City College in

New York City.

• 1964 – President Lyndon Johnson and Congress moved to end all racial segregating in

schools. Civil Rights Act created.

• 1970’s to 1980’s – Filipino immigrates doubled in size in US.

• 1972 – Title IX of Education Amendments passed, giving women significant progress

towards education.

• 1975 – US relocate Southeast Asian immigrates in US.

• 1983 – National Commission on Excellence in Education report of Nation at Risk: The

Imperative for Educational Reform. Reporting declining testing scores.

• 1996 – Hopwood decision racial set-aside were to be eliminated.

2000’s:

• Charter Schools are created, less ruling than public schools, but still free for students.

• 2001- 9/11 happens, creating distrust for Arab Americans.

• 2003 – University of Michigan decision racial set-aside were to be eliminated.

• 2007 – Supreme Court rules that Settle and Louisville need to stop plans that used race

against K – 12 students.
Work Cited:

Sadker, D. Zittleman, K. (2018). Teachers, Schools, and Society. McGraw Hill Education.