Chronology/Key Events

Ideas/Trends

 * Baconian Method (See Julie Reuben)
 * Bureaucracy and Centralization (late 19th, early 20th century) (See Michael Katz and David Tyack)
 * Indian Education, for example: Carlisle Indian Industrial School
 * Lancasterian (Monitorial) System

Events

 * Dartmouth College vs. Woodward (1819)
 * Yale Report (1828)
 * Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
 * HBCUs (1840s-1920s, mostly during Reconstruction)
 * Committee of Ten (1892)
 * Smith-Hughes Act (1917) (Herbert Kliebard)
 * Scopes Trial (1924) (See Adam Shapiro)
 * Service Readjustment Act (1944, G.I. Bill) (Led to the doubling of enrollments in higher educaiton and campus expansion) (See Christopher P. Loss)
 * Higher Education for American Democracy (1947) (See Christopher P. Loss)
 * Brown v. Board of Education (1953) (See James T. Patterson)
 * National Defense and Education Act(1958)
 * Higher Education Act (1965)
 * Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965)
 * Rodriguez Case Vs. San Antonio School District(1973) (See James T. Patterson)
 * Miliken vs. Bradley (Detroit School Busing, 1974) (See James T. Patterson)
 * Bayh-Dole Act (1980)
 * A Nation At Risk (Report, 1983) (See Diane Ravitch, Dana Goldstein, and David Tyack)