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Landmark Moments in American Education
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Harvard College was opened for 9 pupils who strived for further learning, taught by John Harvard.
1636
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The first text book was printed in Boston, the 'New England Primer'. While it taught students to spell, it also drilled them with religion.
1690
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The average lifetime of school attendance was less than 82 days.
1776
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Noah Webster published “The Blueback Speller,” a textbook designed to teach about the United States and its peoples.
1783
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Margarethe Schurz founded the first kindergarten in the United States in Watertown, Wisconsin.
1856
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Hampton Institute in Virginia became an agricultural based college and Normal School for newly freed slaves.
1868
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Joliet Junior College, in Joliet, Illinois, opens. It is the first public community college in the U.S.
1901
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Federal troops enforce integration in Little Rock, Arkansas as the Little Rock 9 enroll at Central High School.
1957
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The National Association of Bilingual Education is founded.
1976
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33 states have been granted waivers from some No Child Left Behind requirements.
2012
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