Education Timeline
(1800's) - Makayla Bustos 1st period
Early Events
1801 - James Pillans invents the modern blackboard
1817 - The Connecticut Asylum at Hartford for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb persons opens
1821 - The first public high school opens (Boston English High School)
1823 - Catherine Beecher found the Hartford Female Seminary (Private school)
1827 - Massachusetts passes a law requiring towns of more than 500 families to have a public high school that is opened to all students
Boston English High School when first opened.
Catherine Beecher's Female Seminary.
Hartford's Asylum for the Dumb and Deaf.
Later Events
1829 - The first school opened for children with visual disabilities (The New England Asylum for the Blind)
1837 - Horace Mann becomes secretary of the State Board of Education
1837 - Mount Holyoke Female Seminary opens , was the first college for women in the U.S
1839 - The first state funded school specifically for teacher education (Lexingtion , Massachusetts)
1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is the first women to graduate from medical school