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Harvard College is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At this time, higher education was mainly for training clergy.

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The New England Primer was published. It used rhymes about religious topics to teach children to read, and often consisted of woodcut illustrations.

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Dame schools were created (mainly in the North). This was informal schooling that was run by women in their homes. They taught reading, writing, and religious instruction to young children. This was often the only schooling that girls received.

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Females gained substantial access to education in New England. The literacy rate for white women was now the highest in human history.

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Thomas Jefferson proposed a "two track educational system." This divided children into two groups -- the laboring and the learned -- and each group received a different education. Scholarships were given to very few boys in the laboring class to help them advance to higher education.

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Noah Webster released the Blue Backed Spelling Book which taught the Americanized spelling of certain words (ex: "favor" instead of "favour", "color" instead of "colour"). It paved the way for new textbooks to be used in classrooms from the 1780s to the 1790s.

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Washington and Lee University admitted John Chavis, the first known African American who attended college in the United States.

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The Indian Civilization Act was passed. This increased the funding given to schools as well as created a systemized education to teach Native Americans English.

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The opening of the first public high school in the U.S (The English High School in Boston).

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Alexander Lucius Twilight became the first person of color to earn a Bachelor’s degree when he graduated from Middlebury College.

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The Indian Removal Act forced Native Americans to relocate which led to the Trail of Tears (about 15,000 people died).

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The beginning of the Common School movement which sought to create publicly funded, nonsectarian schools for all children. These schools were more centralized, standardized, and uniform than ever before. Consisted of children from primary school through high school, and laid the foundation for today’s public school system. These schools were created based on the idea that education should be public and accessible to all.

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The Nat Turner Rebellion -- a slave rebellion that resulted in the prevention of slaves from being educated. It led to laws mandating harsh penalties for those who taught slaves to read.

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Establishment of the first women's college, Wesleyan College in Georgia

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Founding of the National Teachers Association (now the National Education Association)

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Mary Jane Patterson became the first African American woman to earn a degree when she graduated from Oberlin College

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Establishment of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle Pennsylvania ("Kill the Indian, Save the Man). Set a precedent for roughly 400 other boarding schools across 37 states forcing hundreds/thousands of Native American children to give up their culture/customs.

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Plessy v Furguson. Landmark U.S Supreme Court decision that ruled racial segregation laws didn't violate the U.S Constitution as long as facilities for POC (people of color) were equal in quality as their white counterparts. "Separate but equal"

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1,300 achievement tests hit the market, as well as nearly 100 vocational tests, high school tests, and standardized measurements for athletic ability

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The College Entrance Examination Board was established and made official

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The model of schooling went to six-three-three. 6 years in elementary school, 3 years junior high, and 3 years of high school

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The Lemon Grove Incident. The first successful school desegregation case in the U.S; local school board in Lemon Grove, CA tried to establish a separate school for Mexican American students. The presiding Judge ruled that children of Mexican origin could not be segregated under the laws of the state of California, because they were "of Caucasian race" and laws allowing segregation of Asian, Black, and Native American children did not apply to them

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First American public school was founded - Boston Latin School

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Brown V Board. Desegregation of schools; equal education rights; declared that separate was not equal

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Milliken v Bradley. Supreme court case made up by Richard Nixon's role that schools may not be desegregated across school districts (legalizing segregation of schools of color in inner-city districts from white students in wealthier white suburban districts)