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Boston Latin School, founded on April 23, 1635, is the oldest public school in America. It offered free education to boys

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Required parents to ensure children's ability to read in Massachusetts.

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1740 - South Carolina denies education to black children

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1740 - South Carolina denies education to black children

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The comprehensive act made it illegal for enslaved Africans to move abroad, assemble in groups, raise food, earn money, and learn to write.

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1785, 1787 - Land Ordinance Act, Northwest ordinance

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1785, 1787 - Land Ordinance Act, Northwest ordinance

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Divided every town into thirty-six lots and reserved a center lot for public schools, requiring outer lots to generate resources for those schools.

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1821 - Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary opens, first endowed secondary school for girls.

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1821 - Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary opens, first endowed secondary school for girls.

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1821 - First public high school opens in Boston

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1821 - First public high school opens in Boston

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The English High School of Boston is one of the first public high schools in America. Originally called The English Classical School, it was renamed The English High School in 1824. English Classical School was opened with an enrollment of 101 boys. Women were not allowed in school at the time.

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1823 - first private normal school opens in Vermont

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1823 - first private normal school opens in Vermont

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School or college for the training of teachers.

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1827 - Massachusetts requires public high schools

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1827 - Massachusetts requires public high schools

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Massachusetts passed a law requiring all towns with 500+ families to have a public high school open to all students.

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1855 - First Kindergarten (German language) in United States

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1855 - First Kindergarten (German language) in United States

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Froebel and opened the first German kindergarten in 1855 in her home

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1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision supporting racially separate but equal schools.

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1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision supporting racially separate but equal schools.

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Ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".

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