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The Age of Enlightenment encouraged all people to embark upon self-improvement.
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Apprenticeships for trades but also learned math skills and reading and writing.
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A Junto was designed to explore and discuss intellectual ideas and achievements.
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Had to learn to read so they could read Washington's orders.
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Due to immigration - teaching American history
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Classes increasingly including women - Ideas of time abolition, temperance, sufferage - big ideas
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Land Grant College Act by Lincoln. Getting more toward agricultureal education - college more readily available and more affordable.
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OUt of school vacation - summer school for the general masses
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becoming much more industrial - coming to the northern and midwestern areas for industry - big push for English as a seoncd language - on the job training -
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Industrial welfare movement in response to immigration and migrant workers - spilling over from 1800's and becoming larger Lot of people shiftying around due to Great Depression and being out of work
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Issues of race, poverty, Brown vs Board Displaced families - teaching women
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Counselng started at end of war movement for job - what is their placement going to be after war? Providing jobs and education for masses that return and to be employed and employable Similar to Workforce Development
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Continuation of Federal involvement in transforming educational levels and looking at equal rights - peieces of legislation
Adult Education Act 166 -
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State funding
teacher certification
set age for school to begin
1916 7 months
1928 - 180 days
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Efforts to strengthen and develop adult education in Virginia have taken many forms.
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