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1635
Boston Latin Grammar School opens
 1636
Harvard College opens
 1647
Old Deluder Satan Law
-Required schools for towns of more than fifty families
-Literacy needed in order to read the Bible
 1687-1690
New England Primer Published
 1740
South Carolina denies education to blacks
 1751
Franklin Academy opens in Philadelphia
-Founded by Benjamin Franklin
-Purpose was to prepare students for the work place.
 1783
American Spelling Book
-Noah Websters book
 1785
Land Ordinance Act
-Northwest Ordinance
-Divided western territories into townships
 1821
Emma Willards Troy Female Seminary opens, first endowed secondary school for
girls.
 1821
First public high school opens in Boston.
 1827
Massachusetts Requires public high school
 1837
Horace Mann
-He becomes secretary of board of education in Massachusetts
 1839
First public normal school in Lexington, Massachusetts
 1855
First Kindergarten (German language) in United States
 1862
Morrill Land Grant College Act
 1874
Kalamazoo Case
-Legalizes taxes for high schools
 1896
Plessy V. Ferguson
-Supreme Court decision supporting racially separate but equal schools.
 1909
First Junior High opens in Columbus, Ohio.
 1944
G.I. Bill of Rights
 1950
Bay City, Michigan
-First Junior High in Bay City, Michigan
 1954
Brown V. Board of Education
-Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in schools
 1957
Sputnik leads to increased federal education funds.
 1958
National Defense Education Act funds science, math, and foreign language
programs.
 1972
Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in schools.
 1979
Department of Education (Cabinet level) is established