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1952:two revolutionary educators die
Maria Montessori & John Dewey, ; Maria promoted ideas that children are not mini-adults taght self learning. John emphasized student intrests rather than subject matter. Both believed in child centered curriculum.
1954: Brown v. board of education
Overturned Seperate but equal no longer ok for minorities to attend inferrior schools, because seperate but equal was not equal but segregated
1955: civil rights era begins
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus, sparking the Montgomery bus boycot
1957: Sputnik "spy" sattelite launched
Begining of the cold war and the begining of Russian/anticommunist sentiment / "The Red Scare"
1958:National Defence Act
because of the red scare the law was enacted to help fund more science based curriculum.
1964:Civil Rights Act
Milestone in American History leading the way to the present with America's first black President
1970: Rigoberto Duarte born in the town of Naco, sonora Mexico
1965:Elementary and Secondary act
War on poverty leading to the Bilingual Edu. Act in 1967
1975:Tittle IX
Equality in the sports funding for female sports
1979:Secretary of Education becomes a position in the executive branch of the United States of America, appointed by the P.O.T.U.S./ Shirley Hufstedler 1st one to hold that possition
1980: John Lennon is shot dead
1983: Reagan appoints National Commission on Excellence in Education
1984: my family moves to Ca. From Az.
1988: my first son is born Josua James Duarte
2001: 9/11 attacks
we enter into war, our freedoms are being erroded American prestigue around thev globe is waning
2010: I begin attending classes at GCC
1636:Harvard founded
1647:Old Deluder Satan Act
it was thought that "satan's" mission was to keep them ignorant of "god's" word, that was the reason for this act. it was to counter "satan"
1683:Boston Latin School
first grammar primarily a boys school ages 8-16
1751: Ben Franklin Acadamy
1776: Declaration of Independence
1782:Friedrich Froebel was born
father of kindergarten
1783: Noah Webster
created The American Spelling Book
1785: Northwest Ordinance
put in place so townships set the16th plot aside for a school
1836:McGuffey
Eclectic reader published, it was a morality based book
1837: Horace Mann
1st secretary of educationin the great state of Massachusetts
1862:Emancipation Proclamation/ Morrill
30000 acres to each congretional rep. to establish colleges of agriculture, and mechanical ed. known as land grant colleges
1873:Kalamazoo case
Michigan Supreme Court ruling; upheld the use of tax money to support common schools
1893: Committee of Ten
National Education Association published a study in which it recomended; H.S. 7-12, alternitive curriculum, curriculum does not differ whether or not seeking college entrance
1904: Mary McLeod Bethune founded Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Daughter of former slaves helped in founding the N.A.A.C.P
1912: Az. accepted into the United States,becoming a state
1919: Soledad Gutierrez born in Guanajuato Mexico
My Grandmother Still Alive 91 years old. Still goes to Vegas to gamble
1925: Scopes trial
John scopes challenges creation and wants to teach evolution. Scopes lost and was fined $100, never the less a precedent had been set.