The American Curriculum

By rsheets
  • The School and Society by John Dewey

    This book was published and John Dewey became known as "The Father of Progressive Education
  • Low numbers

    50% of school aged children attended school fo only an average of 5 years, with only a 6% graduation rate
  • Gary Plan

    In place to increase manufacturing for corporations, put into action in 30 NY schools by the Mayor and was immediately attacked as a plot to turn out cheap labor
  • John Hylan

    won the 1917 Mayor elections and cancelled the Gary Plan
  • Destroy Books

    35 states destroyed German education books to promote a plan for English only instruction
  • Numbers slowly increasing

    17% of 17 year olds graduate from high school and IQ tests are put into place to spot future leaders
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    Drop out rate

    2/3 of Italian children leave school before 8th grade
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    Child labor laws

    child labor banned, students were required to be in school until at least age 16
  • Still Increasing

    51% of students graduate high school, 40% go to college
  • Minority numbers low

    only 13.7% of African Americans receive diplomas, only 0.095% of women receive a medical or law degree, average school attendance is only 9 years, 3/5 children graduate from high school with 50% attending college
  • Segregation

    African Americans were segregated in 17 states, average schooling for Mexican Americans was only 5.4 years, 72% of disabled students were not in school
  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    passed for fully integrated schools
  • Little Rock Arkansas integration issues

  • Segregation continues

    98% of black students still in all black schools in the South
  • Civil Rights Act

    federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity in all federally funded programs
  • Rising numbers for further education

    85% of students plan to go to college
  • Still low with minorities

    75% of Mexican Americans drop out before 8th grade
  • Almost full integration

    91% of southern children attend integrated schools
  • Title IX

    prohibits discrimination based on gender
  • Bilingual education on the rise

    $68 million granted to bilingual programs in school plus public teaching materials in over 40 languages
  • Title IX lawsuits

    by Women's Equity Action League, charged government with failure to enforce Title IX
  • Numbers ever rising

    51.4% of African Americans earn a high school diploma, 30% of women receive degrees in medical and law fields, school attendance has risen to 12.5 years
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    Full capacity

    Almost 100% of school aged children attend school in a business driven world
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    Graduation Requirements

    high graduation requirements were put into place in 35 states, with an annual cost of standardized testing reaching $500 million
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    School shootings

    Over 200 deaths resulting from school shootings
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    Homeschool

    homeschooling became legal in all 50 states
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    New schooling options

    2.5% of children were home schooled, 173 charter schools ran by for-profit companies, 2100 total charge schools available, over 90,000 public schools
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    Publice enrollment in school

    47.8 million children were enrolled in the 2001-2002 public schools reaching almost 90%