Dates

Question 1

Elementary school established in New York by the Dutch

Answer 1

1633

Question 2

First Latin grammar school established in Boston

Answer 2

1635

Question 3

Harvard, first American College, founded in Massachusetts for the purpose of training ministers of the Gospel

Answer 3

1636

Question 4

Bay Psalm Book first book printed in the colonies

Answer 4

1640

Question 5

Massachusetts compulsory education law

Answer 5

1642

Question 6

First general school law, Old Deluder Satan Act, passed in Massachusetts; provided for the establishment of grammar schools so children could read the Scriptures

Answer 6

1647

Question 7

Yale founded by the Puritans

Answer 7

1701

Question 8

Benjamin Franklin organizes Academy in Philadelphia which later became the University of Pennsylvania

Answer 8

1751

Question 9

First American textbook, Noah Webster’s spelling book, published

Answer 9

1783

Question 10

Policy of endowment of schools with public funds

Answer 10

1785

Question 11

Lands as federal aid were implemented by the Northwest Ordinance which said that schools were necessary to promote “religion, morality, and knowledge.” voted again in 1789 under newly ratified Constitution

Answer 11

1787

Question 12

Passage of the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reserved education for the various states

Answer 12

1791

Question 13

Federal Government gave first lands for education in Ohio

Answer 13

1803

Question 14

Federal Government made first money grants for education

Answer 14

1818

Question 15

The U.S. Supreme Court rendered the Dartmouth College decision, establishing the inviolability of a college charter

Answer 15

1819

Question 16

First tax-supported high school established in Boston

Answer 16

1821

Question 17

The first private normal school for teachers organized in Vermont

Answer 17

1823

Question 18

Massachusetts passed the first state high school law

Answer 18

1827

Question 19

Women first admitted to college Oberlin College

Answer 19

1833

Question 20

Pennsylvania established first statewide free elementary schools

Answer 20

1834

Question 21

McGuffey Readers began and continued to have an enormous influence for over a century

Answer 21

1836

Question 22

Horace Mann, first state Secretary of Education, started “Common School Revival” - first public school started and the Bible still taught

Answer 22

1837

Question 23

First state normal school organized at Lexington, Massachussetts

Answer 23

1839

Question 24

First U.S. kindergarten established at Watertown, Wisconsin

Answer 24

1855

Question 25

National Teacher’s Association formed, now known as the NEA National Education Association

Answer 25

1857

Question 26

President Lincoln signed Morrill Act, creating federally supported land-grant colleges

Answer 26

1862

Question 27

Congress created National Department of Education, later becoming the U.S. Office of Education

Answer 27

1867

Question 28

Michigan Supreme Court upheld taxation for secondary schools in Kalamazoo case

Answer 28

1872

Question 29

Association of American Universities organized; McGuffey Readers replaces New England Primer

Answer 29

1900

Question 30

John Dewey, the father of Progressive Education, introduced socialistic, anti-Christian philosophy in the schools. The Bible was separated from academic studies.

Answer 30

1905

Question 31

Legal compulsory education made effective in all states

Answer 31

1918

Question 32

In the Oregon decision, Supreme Court articulated constitutional right of parents to choose whether they wish their children to be educated in public or private schools

Answer 32

1925

Question 33

private schools enrolled 8% of total elementary and secondary student population

Answer 33

1932

Question 34

Average size of a private school was 196 students per school; private schools enrolled 2 million students

Answer 34

1932

Question 35

The Humanist Manifesto, written by John Dewey and 33 other signers, enunciated the doctrine of secular humanism. God and the supernatural were rejected and replaced with man’s reasoning and science

Answer 35

1933

Question 36

Pensacola Christian Schools began with 35 students

Answer 36

1954

Question 37

90% of private schools church affiliated

Answer 37

1932-1960

Question 38

Private schools enroll 13.6% of the total elementary and secondary student population (presently stable from 1980 at 11%); private schools enrolled 5.2 million pupils

Answer 38

1960

Question 39

First volume of Programmed Learning publised

Answer 39

1960

Question 40

Average size of private school was 300 student per school

Answer 40

1961

Question 41

New York Board of Regents approved school prayer; U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional

Answer 41

1962

Question 42

There are now over 10,000 Christian Schools to combat the destructive education of religious humanism

Answer 42

1965

Question 43

Right-to-read program started nation wide to raise reading performance

Answer 43

1970

Question 44

A Beka Book officially began

Answer 44

1972

Question 45

U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Ten Commandments unconstitutional to post in Kentucky schools for their work in state-mandated testing

Answer 45

1980

Question 46

A Nation at Risk - a report about the decline in education

Answer 46

1983

Question 47

Educate America Act - Goals 2000 outcome based education

Answer 47

1994

Question 48

No Child Left Behind Act targets improving test scores and reading skills

Answer 48

2001