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Promoted higher standards and put U.S universities on an equal footing with its European counterparts
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Mary McLeod Bethune, an African American educator, founds the public school for negro girls in Daytona beach -
Educational reformer Ella Flagg Young becomes the superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools. She is the first female superintendent of a large city school system. Later she was elected president of the national education association. -
The Boy Scouts of America is established. The Girl Scouts are founded two years later by Juliette Gordon Low. -
studying child development and children's learning. It opens a laboratory nursery school in 1918 and in 1950 becomes the Bank Street College of Education. Its School for Children is now "an independent demonstration school for Bank Street College." -
Robert Yerkes, then President of the American Psychological Association and an army officer, becomes Chairman of the Committee on Psychological Examination of Recruits. The committee, which includes Louis Terman, has the task of developing a group intelligence test. He and his team of psychologists design the Army Alpha and Beta tests. Though these tests have little impact on the war, they lay the groundwork for future standardized tests. -
John Scopes, a high school biology teacher, is charged with the heinous crime of teaching evolution, which is in violation of the Butler Act, The trial ends in Scopes' conviction. The evolution versus creationism controversy persists to this day. -
the U. S. District Court in Los Angeles rules that educating children of Mexican descent in separate facilities is unconstitutional, thus prohibiting segregation in California schools and setting an important precedent for Brown vs. Board of Education.