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2015 Education Through the Last 50 Years: A Timeline

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Lady Bird Johnson Visiting a Classroom for Project Head Start

GVSC President James Zumberge President Johnson signs another bill into law

NATION

w 1960N Johnson creates Head w 1968 Jane Elliott teaches her blue for “Preparation for The Teaching Start program for low-income eyes/brown eyes discrimination Profession.” preschoolers lesson to third graders in Iowa. w 1967 The Teacher Preparation w 1962 Engel v. Vitale rules that states w 1968 International Baccalaureate Program begins; Arthur Hills serves cannot mandate prayer in school Organization (IBO) is established. as the initial program coordinator.

w 1964 President Lydon Johnson signs w 1969 Sesame Street airs w 1968 Grand Valley approved by the TRiO Act. for the first time. the state to recommend teachers for certification. 97 prospective w 1965 Affirmative Action elementary teachers and 77 becomes law. GVSU secondary teachers enrolled. w 1965 Title I, The Elementary and w w 1963G Grand Valley State College 1969 The Teacher Education Center Secondary Education Act and the is formed under James Hoffman and Higher Education Act pass. begins to offer freshman and sophomore classes. Grand Valley hosts the Michigan w 1968 Federal Mandate requires Association Student Teacher Spring w education buildings to be modified 1965 Grand Valley State University Regional Conference. for handicapped access. President James Zumberge (1963-69) agrees to add seven undergraduate education courses

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Patsy Mink Title IX Co-Author 1970s

Birch Bayh Title IX Author

1970s GVSC School of Education First Graduate Class Faite Mack

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w 1971N Email is sent for the first time, w 1978 University of California students; hosting 116 between the promising the development of Regents v. Allan Bakke increases ages of seven and twenty. distance education. tension over the implementation w 1973 Faite Mack applies for three of affirmative action. w 1972 Title IX passes, banning grants: Right to Read, Bilingual sex discrimination in educational w 1979 United States Department Education, and a Multi-Ethnic institutions. of Education is made a Cabinet Teacher Education Inservice level agency. program grant. The grants fund the w 1973 Rehabilitation Act bans first graduate education programs discrimination against those with offered by Grand Valley disabilities. GVSU w 1975 The School of Education w 1975 Age Discrimination Act w 1971G The Educational Studies partners with Seidman School of passes, banning discrimination in Business to offer Grand Valley’s first hiring and firing older persons. Institute is established under Dale Olsen and Weston Wochholz; graduate-level education courses— w 1975 The Individuals with hosts “seIf-improvement” summer Mary Segar is appointed interim Disabilities Act (IDEA), marks the workshops to current area teachers director of the education programs. beginning of modern day special and professors. They are funded solely by grants education in classrooms and for the first two years and housed requires free and appropriate public w 1971 Robert Cross directs summer downtown at 156 E. Fulton St. education (FAPE) for all students programs for cognitively impaired with disabilities.

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Howard Gardner, Theory of Multiple Inelligences

Astronaut Sally Ride Loretta Konecki, Director of the GVSU School of Education

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w 1983N Howard Gardner proposes w 1988 Gay teacher and straight w 1986 Loretta Konecki becomes theory of multiple intelligences, student create the first Gay-Straight director of the School of Education. addressing the need for different Alliance at Concord Academy. Her main task is to earn national types of teaching. accreditation for the School of w 1989 Dead Poets Society is Education. w 1983 First American woman released, critiquing common public in space Sally Ride, later wrote education practices of the time. w 1987 The School of Education childrens books on science and earns NCATE (National Council space exploration. for the Accreditation of Teacher Education) accreditation, putting w 1987 JJ Carnell finds that 90% GVSU our education programs on-par of schools claim their students w 1980G First catalog reference to with premier universities across the score above average on the “School of Education” for United States. standardized tests. undergraduate student, housed within the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Daniel Goleman, Theory of Emotional Intelligence

Robert Hagerty, Dean of the GVSU School of Education

NATION w 1992N First Charter school is w 1999 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold campus and made us responsible established in Michigan called City massacre fellow students, killing 12 for all our programs.” Academic High School students and 1 teacher and injuring w 1996 Robert Hagerty becomes 21 others, at Columbine High w 1995 Daniel Goleman publishes the second Dean of the School School in Columbine, Colorado. theory on emotional intelligence. of Education. Hagerty focuses on w increasing community partnerships w 1995 Regents from the University 1999 The National Household with school districts by providing of California eliminate race and Education Surveys Program professional development and gender from admissions process. reports that 850,000 students in the United States are home- support for Michigan teachers. w 1995 Smartboards are schooled. w 1998 The School of Education implemented in classrooms. begins offering GVSU’s first w 1996 The first of the seven Harry doctoral-level courses in Potter novels are published, GVSU Educational Leadership through a encouraging students across the partnership with Eastern Michigan w 1993G Allan Ten Eyck is appointed globe to read, despite dissention University’s Ed.D. program. about its content. first Dean of the School of Education as it becomes an w 1998 Google is invented. autonomous unit within GVSU. Ten Eyck said this transition “gave us equity with other divisions on

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Opening of the SISC

Night Vigil held at Virginia Tech

President Bush signs No Child Left Behind Act

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w 2001N President George W. Bush w 2003 Elaine Collins is appointed signs No Child Left Behind Act. Dean of the School of Education. GVSU Her primary goals are to build a w 2007 Seung-Hui Cho, a senior w 2002G The Community Outreach strong community and technology undergrad at Virginia Tech, kills 32 Office (today the Center for infrastructure, increase diversity, people and wounds 17 others in Educational Partnerships) is created and support and recognize quality the Virginia Tech Massacre. to facilitate partnerships between work within the SOE. w 2009 Nancy Zimpher becomes GVSU’s education programs and w 2004 The College of Education the first female Chancellor of the local community. is established, offering graduate the State University of New w 2002 The School of Education also and undergraduate programs in York and is in charge of over 64 opens the Student Information and education. community college and university Services Center (SISC) to facilitate w 2006 The COE is initially recognized campuses. admission and advising of students as an “Exemplary Teacher in the SOE. Preparation Institution” by the Michigan Department of Education, a title that the COE has retained Thank you to Alex Jacobsson of the annually. College of Education and Nancy Richard of the GVSU Library for their assistance with the timeline. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/colleagues/vol12/iss1/10 Colleagues Spring/Summer • 23 6 Education Through theet Years al.: Education Through the Last 50 2010sYears: A Timeline

Police Investigate the Scene at Sandy Hook Elementary School

eLearning on handheld devices

NATION w 2012N Adam Lanza shoots and available on mobile phones w 2012 The COE passes the 2012 kills 20 elementary students and NCATE (National Council for w Gamification of eLearning 6 staff members at Sandy Hook Accreditation of Teacher Education) courses—instruction will resemble Elementary School in Newtown, Accreditation review by meeting video games rather than common Connecticut. the requirement for all six instruction like a lecture What Will Education Look standards, w Increased distance learning, Like in the Future? w 2013 The COE moves into a new, teachers jobs becoming more and w Increased use of technology in central location in Richard M. more obsolete classrooms such as mobile, online DeVos Center, with departments and open-source learning. on the 4th and 3rd floors. TRiO Educational Talent Search also has w Teachers guide students rather than GVSU a new accessible location in The instruct them. w 2010G The TRiO Educational Talent Depot, located at 510 W. Fulton. w MOOCs—massive open online Search and TRiO Upward Bound w After 50 years, over 13 buildings, classrooms—will allow students programs join the GOE. Both and 4 cities, the COE finally from all over the world to take the programs serve to assist students has a home in DeVos Center same course from traditionally underserved and continues to build a strong w mLearning—online courses backgrounds reach their potential education-centered community. by earning a college degree.

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