Hot Report: Milestones in Connecticut Education -- 1912 to 2012

OLR Report 2012-R-0094 summarizes the highlights in state education policy in the last 100 years.

For example,

• statewide standardized testing dates to 1920,
• schools started to be built in the 1920s,
• education inequality was first studied in 1927,
• homework started being used seriously only the late 1950s and early 1960s, and
• 1966's Project Concern was an attempt to racially desegregate schools

For more information on these items plus many other highlights, read the full report.