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)