American Decades

Important Events in Education, 1900–1909

In January, 250,000 U.S. children under age fifteen did not attend school. Instead they worked in mines and factories.
In March, the New York City Board of Education plans to allow students to bathe in some schools.
On May 12, representatives from thirteen colleges and preparatory schools establish the College Entrance Examination Board.
On July 11, renowned progressive educator Francis W. Parker pleads for the centrality of art in education, asserting in a speech to the National Education Association that there is "art in everything."
In September, forty-eight students enroll in the new Department of School Administration at Teachers' College, Columbia University.
On September 15, the Atlanta school system turns away four hundred students because of a lack of space in city schools.
On November 12, Stanford University President David Starr Jordan ignites a national...

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