America 1930-1939: Education Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 89 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.

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Overview

Ideals and Realities

The Bottom Line

Meritocracy

Class Barriers

Racial Barriers

Progressive Education

Conflict

Topic in the News

The Depression and Education

Retrenchment and Reform

Boom and Decline

Hard Times

Salaries

Modernization

State Financing

Federal Funding

Income and the Teachers

Thrift and schoolchildren

Education for African Americans

Segregation

Self-Help

Limits

Industrial Education

Depression

Improvement

An End to Segregation

The NAACP Plan

The talented tenth?

The plight of the black academic

The eight-year study and other school surveys

The Eight-Year Study

Method

Results

Other Studies

A black school in East Texas

Folk schools, labor colleges, and other experiments

Experiments

The Folk Schools

The Labor Colleges

Attacks

Demise

The New School

Bennington

Black Mountain

Other Schools

Academic anti-semitism

Loyalty oaths, red-baiting, and academic freedom

Academic Freedom

Red-Baiting

Loyalty Oaths

Firings and Dismissals

Attack

Orthodoxy

Charles A. Beard on William Randolph Hearst

Management and labor in education

Conflict

Chicago

Response

The Florida League for Better Schools

The California Teachers Association

Conservatism

Generosity

Unions

Compromise and Conservatism

The new deal in education

Adversaries

Politics

Temperament

Assistance

New Deal Education

CCC

NYA

Reaction

Progressive education and social reconstrutionism

Prominent Philosophy

Progressive Education

The New Frontier

Goals

Essentialism

Opposition

Division

Passing

John Dewey on war and education

Rural Schools

Depression

Improvement

Headline Makers

Charles A. Beard

Historian

Background

Maverick

Educator

Social Studies Commission

Critics

Isolationist

Mary Mcleod Bethune

Dominant Figure

Background

Educator

Activist

New Dealer

Later Career

Horace Mann Bond

Black Educator

Background

Difficulties

Intelligence Testing

Administrator

George S. Counts

Lightning Rod

Background

International Education

Critic

Anticommunist

Later Career

Glenn Frank

A Varied Life

Background

Among the Elite

President

Politician

Catherine Brieger Stern

Elementary Education Leader

Background

Expertise and Exile

Innovations

Loyd S. Tireman

Pioneer

Background

The San Jose School

Problems

The Nambe Community School

Later Career

People in the News

Deaths

Publications

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America 1930-1939: Education Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 89 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.