1. Daily Goals Content: Literacy: Social:
Understand how industrialization lead to the development of public schools
Understand the difference between Industrial and Academic Education
Literacy:
Students will compare primary sources of school curriculum
Students will view video
Social:
Students will raise hands
Students will not talk out of turn
Students will participate in class and group discussion

2. Progressives react to Child Labor
Farm Work
Factory Work

3. Expansion of Public Education
Elementary Schools
High School
Goal of school: teach basic skills needed to get by in everyday life
Taught reading, writing, and arithmetic
Emphasis on memorization
Strict discipline (hickory switch)
Most students graduated from school after 8th grade
The USA changed with the technology of the Industrial Revolution
Goal of school:
teach skills to get ahead in new industrial society
Good workers
Good citizens
Good individuals

4. Who should be educated? Immigrants?
Encouraged to go to public school to
Assimilate: become American
Learn:
Read/Write English
American History
Work Skills
African-Americans?
Most children
not allowed in public schools
Needed at home for farm work
It took until the 1940s for public education to become widely available for African-American children

5. 8th Grade Graduation Exam

6. Two Kinds of Education Industrial Education Academic Education
Trade and Vocational Schools
Prepare for workplace
Use hands to get ahead
Booker T. Washington
Academic Education
High Schools and Colleges
Prepare for college
Use head to get ahead
W.E.B. DuBois

7. Comparing It to Today
How is the High School coursework similar to EBF?
How is different?
How is the Industrial School coursework similar to EBF?
How is it different?

8. EBF Graduation Requirements
Courses
2012
2013
2014
Science 6
Math
English 8
Social Studies
Fine Arts 2
Vocational / Computer 3
Physical Education 5
Electives 14
Total 50 52 54

9. Thought Jot What do you plan to do after high school?
How do you plan to get there?
Getting by? Or getting ahead?

10. College Graduates Earn More Money

11. College = Lower Unemployment Rates

12. Thought Jot The idea behind school is to prepare you for life.
What changes would you make to school so that it better prepares you for what is ahead?

13. For what should High School be preparing you?