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The term Common School, refers to schools that provide education to the average person.

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The Supreme Court Case of Brown v. Board of Education ruled that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal and that laws requiring white and nonwhite students to go to different schools were illegal.

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The Supreme Court established in this case that schools must offer students sufficient special instruction to be offered equal educational opportunity.

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The ruling of the Kalamazoo Case of 1874 affirmed that the school district could tax the public to support both high schools and elementary schools.

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In kindergarten, children conduct activities such as songs and stories. It is a place used to lay the foundation before formal education begins.

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The Public High School are an extension of the common school system.

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Junior High Schools and Middle Schools resolved the debate of how to recognize grade levels. This was important for fostering a healthy environment for development.

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The Old Deluder Satan Act (1647) was an act that required parents to educate their children.

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The Northwest Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 were enacted for purposes of acquiring public lands for public schools. Encouraged education.

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The Progressive Education Association was an attempt to create new child centered schools in the early 1900s.

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The Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case of 1896 upheld that the constitutionality of "separate but equal" for African Americans. In other words, legal separation of racial segregation.

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English Grammar Schools catered to the growing number of students who needed more than elementary instruction but where not interested in preparing for college.

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The No Child Left Behind Act (2001) required schools to report the academic performance of students in various racial and ethnic groups. The intent was to close the academic achievement gaps.

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In 1862 Congress passed the Morrill Act which granted each state a minimum of 30,000 acers of federal land with the condition that the profit of said lands must be used to establish colleges for the study of agriculture and mechanical arts.