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Decreed that every town with fifty families should have an elementary school and every town with one hundred families should have a Latin school.
What is the General court of Massachusetts Bay colony did what?
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survey of the "Northwest Territory" which included what was to become the state of Ohio. The law created "townships," reserving a portion of each township for a local school.
What is in 1785 what law did the Constitutional Congress pass?
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Illegal for Native Americans to be taught in their native languages. Native children as young as four years old are taken from their parents and sent to Bureau of Indian Affairs off-reservation boarding schools, whose goal, as one BIA official put it, is to "kill the Indian to save the man
What is illegal that passes through congress in 1865?
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the state of Louisiana has the right to require "separate but equal" railroad cars for Blacks and whites. This decision means that the federal government officially recognizes segregation as legal. One result is that southern states pass laws requiring racial segregation in public schools.
What is the Plessy v. Ferguson decision?
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The Supreme Court unanimously agrees that segregated schools are "inherently unequal" and must be abolished. Almost 45 years later in 1998, schools, especially in the north, are as segregated as ever.
What is Brown v. Board of Education Topeka?
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The U.S. system of land grants universities , became the state universities that exist today!
What is the law that created the state universities?
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Making all grades of public school open to all pupils free of charge.
What is the law passed by Massachusetts in 1827?
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Massachusetts Reform school at Westboro opens.
What is a place for children who refuse to attend public school?
200
1905 The U.S. Supreme Court requires California to extend public education to the children of Chinese immigrants.
What is it the U.S. Supreme court requires California to do?
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Size of school boards in the country's 28 biggest cities is cut in half. Most local district (or "ward") based positions are eliminated, in favor of city-wide elections. This means that local immigrant communities lose control of their local schools. Makeup of school boards changes from small local businessmen and some wage earners to professionals (like doctors and lawyers), big businessmen and other members of the richest classes.
What is it that changes in education during 1893- 1913?
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In 1805 New York public school decided one Master can teach hundred of students in a single room. He gives a rote lesson to the older students, who then pass it down to the younger students.
What is the Lancasterian model?
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That people in slavery where forbidden to learn to read!
What is the law most southern states have in 1830?
300
Horace Mann.
What is the name of the head of the Massachusetts state board of Education?
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Provides federal funding for vocational education. Big manufacturing corporations push this, because they want to remove job skill training from the apprenticeship programs of trade unions and bring it under their own control.
What is The Smith-Hughes Act?
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Free public education only for poor children, It's expected that rich people will pay for their children's schooling.
What is it that the Pennsylvania state constitution call for?
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Establishing free public primary school.
What is the petition in the Boston town meeting called for?
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5%.
What is the percentage of slaves who became literate at great personal risk?
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Boston English.
What is the first public high school in the United States of America?
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An act of Congress makes Native Americans U.S. citizens for the first time.
What is in 1924 a act that Congress passes?
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Governor Orval Faubus sends his National Guard to physically prevent nine African American students from enrolling at all-white Central High School. Reluctantly, President Eisenhower sends federal troops to enforce the court order not because he supports desegregation, but because he can't let a state governor use military power to defy the U.S. federal government.
What is it the Federal court orders in Little Rock, Arkansas?
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Support comes from local merchants, businessmen and wealthier Artisans.
What is the free public primary school funded by whom?
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The goal is to make sure that the children of poor immigrants get "civilized" and learn obedience and restraint, so they make good workers and don't contribute to social upheaval.
What is the first compulsory law in 1851 Massachusetts?
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mobilize to bring public education to the South for the first time. After the Civil War, and with the legal end of slavery, African Americans in the South make alliances with white Republicans to push for many political changes, including for the first time rewriting state constitutions to guarantee free public education
What is it that the African Americans mobilize in 1865 through 1877?
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At the end of World War 2, the G.I. Bill of Rights gives thousands of working class men college scholarships for the first time in U.S. history
What is in 1945 does the GI Bill of Rights do for the first time in U.S. history?
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Proposition 187 passes in California, making it illegal for children of undocumented immigrants to attend public school. Federal courts hold Proposition 187 unconstitutional, but anti-immigrant feeling spreads across the country
What is it that propostion 187 in California do?