American Decades
Important Events in Education, 1920–1929
1920
- The U.S. Census reports 21,578,000 students in public schools. College enrollment is 597,000 students, while U.S. population exceeds 100 million.
- The Lusk Laws require New York teachers to take loyalty oaths.
- Junior colleges open in Arizona and Iowa.
- Ellwood P. Cubberley of Stanford University publishes The History of Education.
- In February, psychologist John B. Watson resigns his professorship at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, after rumors surface that he had dated a former student following a divorce from his first wife.
- In May, Arthur Holly Compton becomes Wayman Crow Professor of Physics at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, and one of the most highly paid professors in the U.S.
- In September, Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, opens the first graduate school of geography.
- In September, educators Ernest...
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1920's Education
