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There are many significant events in the world of education. Each one changed the way that teachers taught; the way schools were run and what they learned. To this day, something new and exciting happens all the time. In 1647 the Old Deluder Satan Act enacted in Massachusetts, requiring establishment of schools. This law required every town of 50 families or more to elect a reading and writing teacher to teach the area children. Every town that …

…s greatest work, however was the Webster Dictionary published in 1825. In 1827 Massachusetts passed a law requiring public high schools. High schools were not popular among the community. Parents had the mentality that when children could read and write they had all the education the needed. In 1954 the decision of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka was passed. The decision required racial desegregation of public schools. This allowed blacks to go to an all-white school.