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The Association of American Universities (AAU) was founded in February 1900, at a two-day conference that 14 of the nation's leading Ph.D.-granting institutions held at the University of Chicago.
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Educational leaders from the early to mid-1900"s
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McLeod Bethune an African American educator, founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona Beach, Florida. It merged with the Cookman Institute in 1923 and became a coeducational high school, which eventually evolved into Bethune-Cookman College, now Bethune-Cookman University.
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Maria Montessori opened her first Casa or Childrens House. Montessori is best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world.The first Montessori school in the U.S. opened in Tarrytown, New York. Two years later (1913), Maria Montessori visited the U.S., and Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel found the Montessori Educational Association at their Washington, DC, home
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Edward Lee Thorndike's book, Educational Psychology:The Psychology of Learning,was published. It described his theory that human learning involved habit formation, or connections between stimuli and responses . He believed that such connections are strengthened by repetition.
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Bobbitt wrote The Curriculum: a summary of the development concerning the theory of the curriculum. This became an official specialization in the education sciences.
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The Progressive Education Association is founded with the goal of reforming American education.
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John Dewy published his work on progressive education; Human Nature and Conduct.
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Max Wertheimer described the principles of Gestalt Theory to the Kant Society in Berlin. Gestalt Theory, with its emphasis on learning through insight and grasping the whole concept, became important later in the 20th Century in the development of cognitive views of learning and teaching.
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Jean Piaget's book, The Child's Conception of the World, is published. His theory of cognitive development became an important influence in American developmental psychology and education.
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George Counts pulished the book, Dare the School Build a New Social Order, In this book Counts provides a picture of the cultural, social and political purposes of education.
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John Holt was a schoolteacher and educational reformer who believing that children do not need to be coerced into learning. He thought they do so naturally if given freedom to follow their own interests and provided with a rich assortment of resources. He was a proponent of homeschooling.
