Boston Latin Grammar School

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Shawn Holmes Prof. Kirchner Intro to education Education Time line * 1635 Boston Latin Grammar School. Latin grammar school opens to all boys regardless of social class. Its purpose was to educate young men in the classics as a preparation for universities. * This helped prep young men for universities. More educated men meant better and smarter colonies, and it was good education at the time for free. It was also the first type of school introduced to American colonies, the kick start to school basically. * 1647 Old deluder Satan Act. Required all towns of 50 or more families to provide an elementary school, teachers taught reading, writing, and the bible. Towns of 100 families or more were required to open grammar schools.…show more content…
This was important because it was a way for local community’s to ensure that education was passed down from generation to generation. The main goal was to avoid a generation of poor and unintelligent. Everyone got enough education to read the bible and understand laws that were made from the bible. * 1821 First High school Boston. The English high school of Boston Mass taught English, surveying navigation, geography, logic, and mathematics. * This set the foundation for American schools. It switched the focus from history and arts to the focus of writing, mathematics, geography, and logic. This helped give the fundamental tools to build a smarter America. * 1837 Horace Mann Father of the public School (normal School). Free public school for poor or rich Americans. He centered his vision on the use of education to improve quality of American life. * This was important because it gave every child poor or rich a chance to be educated. Without public schools a lot of kids in lower income areas would go without education. * 1862 Morill Land Grant College Act. Granted each eligible state a total of 30,000 acres of federal land to build educational…show more content…
This helped them compete with the high level of competition to find jobs because they were now able to attend college for free and receive their degrees. * 1950 Milton Friedmon. Created the theory that competition is key to achieving the best school. * This Changed Schools because it forced them to compete with each other to come up with the best school * 1954 Brown v. board of Education. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. * This ruling paved the way for integration and the civil rights movement. * 1972 Tittle 9. No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. * Up until this girls or women were not seen as equal to men or boys. This eliminated all discrimination based on
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