EDUCATION MILESTONES

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First (private) normal school opens in Vermont.

Horace Mann becomes secretary of board of education in Massachusetts.

First kindergarten (German language) in United States.

Kalamazoo case (legalizes taxes for high schools)

Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision supports racially separate but equal schools.

Morrill Land Grant College Act

First public normal school in Lexington, Massachusetts

First public high school opens in Boston. It was called the “English Classical School.”

Massachusetts requires public high schools.

Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary opens.

19TH CENTURY TIMELINE