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Education Timeline: Phi Delta Kappa’s First Century

1904 John Dewey moves from Chicago Lab School to Columbia

1906 Sociey of Pi Kappa Mu, Indiana Univ., founded

1907 Maria Montessori opens her first school

1908 Phi Delta Kappa, Columbia Univ., founded

1909 Nu Rho Beta, Univ. of Missouri, founded

1910 Amalgamation of three education societies into Phi Delta Kappa

1910 Halley’s Comet returns

1914 World War I begins

1916 First issue of Phi Delta Kappan      

1916 AERA founded

1917 U.S. enters World War I

1918 School attendance compulsory in every state

1918 Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education issued

1921 Immigration Restriction Act

1924 Congress makes Native Americans citizens

1925 Scopes Trial

1925 Pierce v. Society of Sisters

1926 First SAT

1930 Eight-Year Study begins

1931 Lemon Grove Incident

1933 James Bryant Conant assumes presidency of Harvard

1939 School buses turn yellow

1941 Pearl Harbor; U.S. enters World War II

1942 Eight-Year Study published

1942 PDK admits African Americans

1944 G.I. Bill of Rights

1924 World War II ends

1946 Benjamin Spock: Baby and Child Care

1946 Henry Chauncey becomes first president of ETS

1954 Brown v. Board of Education

1955 The Blackboard Jungle, film released

1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat

1955 Rudolph Flesch: Why Johnny Can’t Read

1955 Milton Friedman: The Role of Government in Schools

1957 Little Rock Nine

1957 Sputnik I

1958 National Defense Education Act

1961 Jerome Bruner: The Process of Education

1962 Engle v. Vitale

1962 James Meredith enrolls at Univ. of Mississippi

1963 John F. Kennedy assassinated

1964 Civil Rights Act

1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act

1966 The Coleman Report

1966 PDK Educational Foundation established

1967 Jeanne Chall: Learning to Read: The Great Debate

1968 Bilingual Education Act

1969 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

1969 First Gallup education poll summarized in Kappan 

1969 First NAEP assessment

1970 Kent State and Jackson State killings

1971 First e-mail sent

1971 Serrano v. Priest

1972 Title IX

1973 San Antonio v. Rodriguez

1974 PDK admits women

1975 Education for All Handicapped Children Act

1980 Mortimer Adler: Paideia Proposal

1980 Cabinet-level U.S. Department of Education created

1983 A Nation at Risk

1984 Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act

1986 Halley’s Comet returns

1987 E. D. Hirsch, Jr.: Cultural Literacy

1987 Edwards v. Aguillard

1987 National Board for Professional Teaching Standards established

1989 U.N. adopts Convention on the Rights of the Child

1989 Education Summit, Charlottesville, Va.

1990 National Education Goals announced

1990 IDEA

1990 First Channel One broadcast

1991 America 2000 announced

1991 Minnesota passes nation’s first charter school law

1994 Goals 2000: Educate America Act

1999 Columbine massacre

2001 No Child Left Behind passed

2002 Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

2003 Supreme Court rules on affirmative action cases

2006 Phi Delta Kappa celebrates centennial

 

See Phi Delta Kappa at the Threshold by Donovan Walling