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1991 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
1987 Heavy snow closes schools from Washington D.C. to Maine 1985 Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools and housing 1984 Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools 1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students 1980 University administraion declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and post-season play due to transcript and curriculum abuses 1979 "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premieres 1975 Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools 1968 Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional 1966 Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 1964 Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut 1964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools 1964 Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools 1963 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest 1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama 1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools 1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools 1962 Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools 1962 Suit to bar Englewood New Jersey from "racial segregated" schools, filed 1962 "Twist" is impure and bans it from all Catholic schools 1957 Eisenhower orders U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock schools 1956 Louisville Kentucky public schools integrates 1954 School integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore Md public schools 1954 Integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland public schools 1953 Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes 1948 Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional 1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana schools to protest integration 1940 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands 1936 Roy Beggs, born in Ballyclare, Northern Ireland, John Robert Beggs, Ulster Unionist Party, Member of Parliament for East Antrim 1983 - 2005, known for his Euroscepticism, strong support of Northern Ireland's grammar schools 1934 Alan Ridout, born in West Wickham, England, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, worked with Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra, prolific instrumental and choral music composer 1933 Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools 1930 New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew 1926 Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools 1917 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, born in British India, brought Transcendental Meditation to Indian schools, universities 1913 Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools 1910 1st junior high schools in U.S. opens (Berkeley California) 1892 Pledge of Allegiance 1st recited in public schools 1884 Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools 1811 Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies 1796 Horace Mann, U.S., educator/author/editor, pioneered public schools |
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