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Education History Timeline

Tasia Hatcher
EDU 201
11/1/2020
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Brown vs. Board • May 17, 1954

• Ruled that segregation in schools
of Education of violated the 14th amendment
• Rejects the separate but equal
Topeka doctrine that prevents African
American students from
attending schools with White
children
• Helped inspire civil rights
movement
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• Federally sponsored program to

National Defense promote research and
innovation in science,
Education Act mathematics, modern foreign
languages, and guidance
• Teachers trained with new
methods & materials at
workshops
• Schools given funds for new
equipment
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• The right to nondiscrimination

The VII of the • Prohibits discrimination in
Civil Rights Act of schools based on race, color, or
national origin
1964
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• Signed April 9, 1965

Elementary and • Part of President Johnson’s
Secondary Great Society Program
• Distributed federal funds on the
Education Act basis of the number of poor
children in school districts
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• Provision of the Elementary and

Title I Secondary Education Act
• Provides all children with the
chance to receive an equitable
and superior education
• Close the achievement gap
• Designed to improve the basic
skills of low-ability students from
low-income families
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• Women were guaranteed equal

Title IX educational opportunity in
educational programs receiving
federal assistance
• Passed as a part of the Education
Amendments of 1972
• Protects people from
discrimination based on gender
in education programs
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• A 1974 federal law that

Women’s guarantees equal educational
opportunity for females.
Educational • Expanded math, science &
Equity Act technology programs
• Encouragement for females to
participate in athletics
• Programs to increase the
number of educational
administrators
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• Public Law 94-142

Education for All • Federal act that that guarantees
Handicapped a free and appropriate education
to all children with disabilities
Children Act • Referred to as mainstreaming
law
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Nation at Risk • April 1973

• 36-page report by the National
Commission on Excellence in
Education
• Examined the state of public
schools in America & how they
were failing
• How to improve the quality of
schools
• States adopted standardized
content and tests to assess student
performance
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• Provides a free, appropriate

Individuals with education to disabled youth
between ages 3 to 21
Disabilities Act • Replaced the Education for All
(IDEA) Handicapped Children Act
• Changed the term “handicap” to
“disability”
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• Replaced the Elementary and

No Child Left Secondary Education Act
Behind (NCLB) • Statewide testing in reading and
mathematics annually in grades
3-8
• Adequate Yearly Progress
• Schools provide evidence each
year that students are making
progress