1. Mae Morton-Dutton Eliza Barsegyan Saenah Boch Sheila Milon Elvia Perez
Education in the 1930s
Mae Morton-Dutton
Eliza Barsegyan
Saenah Boch
Sheila Milon
Elvia Perez
PERIOD 5

2. SEGREGATION in the 1930s
·         About two hundred and thirty counties w/ no school for African Americans.
·         White schools given more funding, better teachers (more experienced)
·         No graduate/professional schools for African Americans
·         Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
·         White schools were more frequent in location
·         Black instructors make way less than white instructors.
·         No libraries, no playgrounds, leaky roofs, & only basic subjects.
·         Great Depression, so not much funding for the growth of schools
·         25% of students are black, but only 12% receive a basic education.
·         This leads to lack of diversity, and a further illiterate black population. 

3. Developments and Differences of Schools from 1920's to 1930's
compulsory schooling until 16
1920's the National Committee for Mental Hygiene began to develop schools for people with mental illnesses
,000 schools were standardized
1925 scopes trail became very controversial
1929 development of junior high schools
increase in students attending school
many struggles that persisted

4. Developments and Differences of Schools from 1920's to 1930's
due to poverty, only 1/2 of children between the ages of 14 and 16 were attending school
unemployment rising to 25% in 1933 dramatically impacted education
teachers began to receive reduced wages
financial struggles were evident in classrooms
Human Relations movement

5. Women in education in the 1930s
Prior to the Great Depression in the 1930s many women didn’t pursue higher education
Women enrolment where in 1900 there was less than 100,000 women enrolled in college where as by 1940 there were more than 6000,000 female college students
Many more women earned their bachelor degree, educating them to be wives and mothers as well as training them to be working professionals
– Teaching and nursing were the top two fields of study throughout the 1930s as well as home economics
A study in in 1924 surveyed 600 female PhD recipients received grants, scholarships, and fellowships
For the first time women were encouraged to act on self interest and education rather then just doing what they were told
In 1934, Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington William Wilson was a promoter of women perusing a higher level of education

6. Student ACTIVISM
•The modern American Student movement began in the 1930s
•The movement mobilized at least 500,000 college students
•The movement also organized students on behalf of an extensive reform agenda
•The student movement used its national federation and lobby, to champion job programs for low-income students

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