1921-1940

  • Expanding

    Schools were good and started to expand in their number and in what they offered
  • Black and white

  • Longitudinal study of "intellecually suprior" children

  • Abigail Adams Eliot

    establishes Ruggles street nursery in Roxbury (eliot-Pearson children school)
    Department of Child development
  • Mary Mcleod bethune

    Mary Mcleod bethune founds daytona nromal industial school for negro girls
  • Period: to

    telvison

    Tvs were inviented and were used to help with teaching
  • Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)

    Based on the Army Alpha test
  • Jean piaget

    The childs coneption of the world is published
  • Great depression

    begins with stock market crash in october
  • color

    Color started to be used
  • Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove school district

    Becomes first successful school desgregation court case in the united states, local court forbids the schools district from placking Mexican-American children in a seprate "Americanization"
  • Works Progress Administration

    TO put unemployeed to work on public projects, including the the consturcution of hundreds of school buildings.
  • Fair labor Standards act

    Minimum wage of 25 cents per hour
    sets a age requirement for agricultural jobs and limits the number of hours and types of employment for older children
  • Frank W. Cyr

    Professor at columbia Univiersitys Teacher college, organizes a national confrence on student transportation, Adotion of nations school buses, inculding the shade of yellow
  • David Wechsler

    Intelligence scale
    Deviantion IQ ( calculates score based on how far subjecrs scores differ from others who have taken it)