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HISTORY OF EDUCATION1980S-2000

Jackie Wronkowski

1980’s Timeline of Events1980

January: Rubik’s Cube debuts at International Toy Fair

March 18: President Jimmy Carter signs The Refugee Act of 1980

April 24: U.S. rescue attempts to save hostages in Tehran Falls

May 18: Mount St. Helens erupts

May 22: Pac-Man video game is released

June 1: CNN is established

President Jimmy Carter signs the Refugee Education Assistance Act into law and brings thousands of Cuban and small number of Haitian refugees to Florida

Ronald Reagan is elected president, bringing upon a new conservative era

1981 March 30: John Hinckley Jr.

attempts to assassinate President Reagan

April 12: The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched

John Holt’s book, Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education, adds momentum to homeschooling movement

IMB introduces its version of the PC (personal computer) with the Model 5150

1982 April 2: Argentina invades the Falkland

Islands

June 11: The movie “E.T.” released

November 13: Vietnam War Memorial opens in Washington, D.C.

Calvin Klein’s first underwear ad featuring Tom Hintnaus stops traffic in Times Square

Madeline C. Hunter's book, Mastery Teaching, is published

In the case of Board of Education v. Pico, the U.S. Supreme court rules that books cannot be removed from a school library because school administrators deemed their content to be offensive

1983 February 28: “M*A*S*H” ends after 251 episodes

March 23: President Reagan announces defense plan called Star Wars

April 18: U.S. Embassy in Beirut bombed

June 18: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space

December 2: Michael Jackson releases hit song, “Thriller”

1984 January 24: Steve Jobs introduces

the first Macintosh computer

September 14: Madonna performs “Like a Virgin” at the first-ever MTV Awards

September 20: “The Cosby Show” debuts

Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be attackers on a New York subway.

The Emergency Immigrant Education Act is enacted to provide services and offset the costs for school districts that have unexpectedly large numbers of immigrant students

1985 May 24: Steve Jobs leaves Apple

Computers

September 3: Bob Ballard discovers the wreck of the Titanic

November 20: Microsoft introduces Windows

First hole in the ozone is reported

Nike releases the Air Jordan 1

The movie, “Back to the Future” starring Michael J. Fox is released

Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first independent version of Windows is released

1986 January 28: Space Shuttle

Challenger explodes 73 seconds after its launch

Christa McAuliffe was chosen by NASA from more than 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher-astronaut by is killed along with six other members of the crew

February 20: USSR launches Mir Space Station

July 4: RUN DMC releases the hit song, “Walk This Way”

1987 October 4: U.S. and Canada

sign free trade agreement

October 19: U.S. stock market plunges on Black Monday

December: Eli Lilly Drug Company receives final approval to market Prozac

DNA first used to convict criminals and exonerate innocent prisoners on death row

1988 February 20: Salt n’ Pepa’s “Push It”

peaks on the Billboard charts at #19

President Reagan names Ben and Jerry Small Business Persons of the Year.

May 15: Soviet troops begin to withdraw from Afghanistan after nine-year occupation

November: George Bush Sr. elected president of the United States

“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” is the top-grossing film of the year

CDs outsell vinyl records and tapes for the first time

1989 March 24: Exxon Valdez spills millions of gallons of oil on Alaskan coastline

November 9: Berlin Wall falls

September 22: “Bay Watch” is aired

December 17: “The Simpsons” debuts

The Gameboy is released

The Internet goes global

The University of Phoenix establishes their ‘online campus’

1980’s Pop Culture Boom box Break dancing Care Bears Cabbage Patch Kids Converse all stars Friendship bracelets Nintendo Rubix cube Valley girl Tetherball

Horror Movies: Nightmare on Elm Street, Jaws

TV Shows: Saved by the Bell, The Smurfs

Fashion: Goatee beards Shoulder pads Big hair Denim jackets Miami vice jackets Mullet hair style

Education in the 1980’s Biggest concern: quality of American education

Significant shift: changing the role and nature of testing

State-by-state assessment

Pressure for school improvement increases

Private sector’s recognition of the need for better schools Locally: business communities created partnerships with public

schools and also established scholarship programs Nationally: corporate leaders support school reform

Education in the Late 1980’s 1989: President Bush organized a first-

ever education conference of the nation’s government

Set national goals for improvement in many areas:Academic performanceChildren’s readiness for schoolDropout rateAdult literacy

DemographicsHispanic Population and Race Distribution for Non-Hispanic Population

1980 Number Percent 1990 Number Percent 2000 Number Percent

Total Population

226,545,805 100.00% 248,709,873 100.00% 281,421,906 100.00%

Total Hispanics

14,608,673 6.45% 22,354,059 8.99% 35,305,818 12.55%

White 180,256,103 79.57% 188,128,296 75.64% 194,552,774 69.13%

Black 26,104,285 11.52% 29,216,293 11.75% 33,947,837 12.06%

American Indian and Eskimo

1,417,110 0.63% 1,793,773 0.72% 2,068,883 0.74%

Asian 3,489,835 1.54% 6,968,359 2.80% 10,123,169 3.60%

Hawaiian and Pacific Islander

- - - - 353,509 0.13%

Other 669,799 0.30% 249,093 0.10% 467,770 0.17%

Two or More Races

- - - - 4,602,146 1.64%

Demographics continued

1990’s Timeline of Events1990• Hubble Space Telescope is launched into orbit

• Teach for America is formed

• Nelson Mandela is freed

• Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990 is passed

• First elections in Romania

• Iraq invades Kuwait

1991• Gulf War – Operation Desert

Storm

• The World Wide Web is available

• U.S. and U.S.S.R sign treaty reducing strategic nuclear arms by 25%

• Collapse of the Soviet Union

• Clarence Thomas joins the Supreme Court

• Minnesota passes first ‘charter school’ law

1992• Recession recovery

• Riots occur in Los Angeles after Rodney King was beaten by police officers

• Supreme Court upholds Roe v. Wade

• Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States

1993• Congress approves NAFTA

treaty

• NAFTA is ratified

• World Trade Center was bombed

• The cult compound in Waco, Texas was raided

• Recession ends

1994• Republican victory in mid-term

elections

• January 25: The Improving America’s Schools Act (IASA) is signed into law by President Bill Clinton

• Whitewater scandal begins to be investigated

• North Korean is suspected to have committed nuclear violations

• Civil War in Rwanda occurs• Over 800,000 innocent Tutsi’s are

killed by Hutu’s

1995• Oklahoma City Bombing

• Georgia is the first state to offer universal preschool to all four year olds whose parents choose to enroll them

• Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. becomes the first African American to walk in space

• Whiteboards find their way into the U.S. classrooms which begin to replace the blackboard

• First planet outside our solar system is found

1996• Bill Clinton re-elected

President of the U.S

• Theodore Kaczynski is arrested for the Unabomber bombings

• July 27: Bombing at Summer Olympic Games at Centennial Park in Atlanta, Georgia

1997• Princess Diana dies

in car accident

• A sheep, named Dolly is successful cloned

1998• Monica Lewinsky scandal breaks

• Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up a workplace for their search engine in a Menlo Park, California garage

• Bill Clinton is impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives

• California votes pass Proposition 227, requiring that all public school instruction be in English

• Osama Bin Laden publishes Fatwa that announced a jihad (“go kill them”) against all Jews and Crusaders

• Two U.S. embassies are bombed in Africa

1999• Bill Clinton is acquitted

by the U.S. Senate

• John F. Kennedy Jr. dies in plan crash

• School shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado• 12 students are

killed• 1 teacher was killed

2000• George W. Bush is elected President of the United States

1990’s Pop Culture Pagers Beanie Babies Pokémon Tamagotchi Y2K scare Grunge Look Overalls Nylon Windbreakers Vintage clothes

TV Shows: Friends, Seinfeldt, 7th Heaven

Family Movies: Aladdin, The Lion King

Comedies: American Pie, Sleepless in Seattle

Education in the 1990’s

1991 the Bush Administration proposed the American 2000 Act

About 83.5% of the U.S. population had finished four years of high school in 1999 which was more than twice the number in 1960

The standards movement led to the No Child Left Behind Act

Education in the 1990’s continued The National Education Goals:• Every child will start school ready to learn

• High school graduation rate will increase to at least 90%

• U.S. students will be first in the world in science and mathematics achievement

• Every adult American will be literate and possess the knowledge the skills to exercise rights and responsibilities of citizenship

• Every school in the U.S. will be free of drugs, violence, firearms and alcohol

• Every school will promote partnerships that will increase parental involvement and participation in promoting social, emotional and academic growth of children

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