Why America’s first Department of Education didn’t last
The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...
The Bulletin1d
The first high school in Connecticut is almost 200 years old. Here's where it is
In fact, the state's oldest public high school was founded almost 200 years ago. Established in 1847, Hartford Public High ...
William & Mary1y
History & Traditions
the first college to become a university and the first law school in America. William & Mary became a state-supported school in 1906 and went coed in 1918. In 1928, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. chose the ...
The Fresno Bee5d
Sikh name on Central Unified elementary school reflects Fresno area’s rich diversity | Opinion
It will be the first public school in North America named after someone of Sikh decent. Craig Kohlruss ckohlruss@fresnobee.com Congratulations to the Central Unified School District for continuing ...
The Times of Israel1mon
North America’s first Solomon Schechter Conservative day school turns Orthodox
As the first Jewish day school named for Solomon ... a network that supports Jewish day schools across North America. (Chazan boasted at the time that Schechter Queens was a proud outlier to ...