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High school students in the Dover Area School District of Pennsylvana are read a statement about "intelligent design" as an alternative to the theory of evolution. Richard Thompson of the Thomas Moore Law Center declared "This is the first step in which students will be given an honest scientific ev ... |
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Merle Temple Jr, one time top lieutenant to former Georgia school superintendent Linda Schrenko pleads guilty to participating in a criminal conspiracy, stealing federal education funds and committing wire fraud. |
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US President George W. Bush selects Margaret L. Spellings to become the nation's new secretary of education |
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A federal lawsuit is heard in Atlanta to decide whether Cobb County, Georgia school officials violated the constitutional separation of church and state when they placed disclaimer stickers in high school biology texts in 2002 stating that evolution should be "critically considered." |
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In its report Wired for Waste, the Atlanta Journal Constitution documents that the Atlanta public school system has overpaid for a lavish computer network that will cost taxpayers $14 million per year to run. |
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President Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). It was intended to change the federal government's role in Elementary and Secondary School education by asking America's schools to describe their success in terms of what each student accomplishes. |
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood airs its first show. |
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Ralph Nader graduates from Harvard Law. |
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In a speech given at a meeting on education held by the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPC, Deng Xiaoping says "It is inconceivable that our country has not a set of unified teaching materials for secondary schools. The Ministry of Education itself does not necessarily compile teaching ... |
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Ralph Nader graduates from Princeton. |
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Jack Kennedy graduates cum laude from Harvard University. |
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The New York Public Library's main building on Fifth Ave is dedicated. The famous lions guarding the entrance are nicknamed "Patience" and "Fortitude" were sculpted by Edward Clark Potter. |
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Robert E. Lee becomes president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia |
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