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