1. Expanding Public Education
Ch.8 section 2

2. Public Education William Torrey Harris Schools for children
Public school reformer
Believed education should prepare students for employment and participation in a democratic society
Schools for children
State laws required between weeks of school per year for children ages 8 to 14
High Schools
Over ½ million students by 1900
Curriculum now included science, civics, and social studies

4. Public Education Racial Discrimination Immigrants
Black Americans were mostly excluded from secondary education
Those who did attend went to private schools
Immigrants
Encouraged to go to school for the purposes of assimilation
Catholics set up their own school because public schools had children read from the King James version of the Bible
Henry Ford offered classes to his workers in English language and American government and culture

6. Changes in Universities
Industrial development changed the nation’s educational needs
Research universities emerged
Courses included language, physical science, psychology, sociology, law, and medicine
Some colleges used entrance exams while others accepted a high school diploma

7. African American Higher Education
Howard, Atlanta, and Fisk Universities opened between 1865 and 1868
Booker T. Washington
believed racism would end once blacks acquired skills and proved their usefulness to society
Headed Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute- agricultural, mechanical, domestic
W.E.B. Du Bois founded the Niagara Movement which insisted that blacks should seek liberal arts education