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Progressive Education Association is founded with the goal of making education more effective. All states have laws that provide funds for transporting children to school.
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First SAT test administered.
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Development of psychology and education. Great Depression begins which results in schools closing.
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Out of 150 school districts, 3/4 of them used “intelligence testing” to put students in different academic tracks.
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Gave working class men college scholarships because the law provides the same opportunity regardless of background. Tradition of college education only for the wealthy is broken.
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Start of the baby boomer generation which resulted in school population growth and social change.