1920's Education | 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...